reprover
Americannoun
plural
reproversExample Sentences
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Out upon you, Anton Lennox, that set up for a man of God and a reprover of others.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
The North is her passionate reprover; she is held to be, by many, her avowed enemy.
From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah
"You did, sir, with your textual lobster can," replied the reprover.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John
Le Grice, who felt his dignity hurt as a Grecian, but was more pleased at having this opportunity of mortifying his reprover, replied, with an exquisite tranquillity of assurance, "Sir, I never eat apples."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
The last, and not the least important requisite for a reprover, is discretion.
From An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females by Beecher, Catharine Esther
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