REPROVE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To convince. [Obs.] When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9.

2.
v.

To disprove; to refute. [Obs.] Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak.

3.
v.

To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure. What if thy son Prove disobedient, and, reproved, retort, "Wherefore didst thou beget me" Milton.

4.
v.

To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults. He neither reproved the ordinance of John, neither plainly condemned the fastings of the other men. Udall.

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