reprovers
- plural of reprover.
Example Sentences
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And therefore impatient reformers, and denouncing preachers, and hasty reprovers, and angry parents, and irritable relatives generally fail, in their several departments, to reclaim the erring.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
The office of the prophets under the Theocracy, which we first notice, was that of bold reprovers.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
Abolitionists are reprovers for the violation of duties in the domestic relations.
From An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females by Beecher, Catharine Esther
The inspired interrogatory, "thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?" enforces this principle; and the maxim of common sense, that "reprovers must have clean hands," is no less unequivocal.
From An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females by Beecher, Catharine Esther
But even Job's patience could not stand the self-sufficiency of his pious reprovers.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)
