FromMiddle Englishrepreven,reproven, fromAnglo-Normanreprover,Middle Frenchreprouver, fromLatinreprobāre.Doublet ofreprobate.
reprove (third-person singular simple presentreproves,present participlereproving,simple past and past participlereproved)
- (intransitive) To expressdisapproval.[from 14th c.](Can we add anexample for this sense?)
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:reprehend
- (transitive) Tocriticise,rebuke orreprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.[from 14th c.]
- (transitive) Todeny orreject (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).[from 14th c.]
- 1982,Lawrence Durrell,Constance, Faber & Faber 2004(Avignon Quintet), p. 856:
- She ached to be with Affad again – and toreprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.
to convey one's disapproval of (something)
- Bulgarian:порицавам (bg)(poricavam)
- Finnish:moittia (fi),paheksua (fi)
- German:rügen (de),tadeln (de),maßregeln (de),zurechtweisen (de),mahnen (de),ermahnen (de)
- Indonesian:mencela (id)
- Irish:spreag,ceartaigh
- Italian:disapprovare (it),riprovare (it)
- Korean:꾸짖다 (ko)(kkujitda),질책하다 (ko)(jilchaekhada)
- Romanian:mustra (ro),certa (ro)
- Scottish Gaelic:càin,cronaich,troid
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Fromre- +prove.
reprove (third-person singular simple presentreproves,present participlereproving,simple pastreproved,past participlereprovedor(rare)reproven)
- (transitive) Toprove again.
2012, Gary Stamper,Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior:As we've just learned, as long as we live in the manifest realm, a hero's journey is never over. We are constantly having toreprove ourselves.
2015, Matthew Zawodniak, “A Moduli Space for Rational Homotopy Types with the Same Homotopy Lie Algebra”, inarXiv[1]:Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, orreproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper.
reprove
- inflection ofreprovar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
