reprove
verb (used with object)
to criticize or correct, especially gently.
will reprove
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future tenseof reprove.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The Work of the Holy Spirit on the World "He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment."—JOHN xvi.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
From The Servant in the House by Charles Rann Kennedy
But I will reprove thee, and set before thee the things which thou hast done.
From All Saints' Day and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley
Who will reprove, even if the struggle be bitter, and the vision dim?
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
Do not for ever look sorrow and never speak it; utter one word of bitter complaint and I will reprove it with gentle exhortation and pour on you the balm of compassion.
From Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
