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15 words match “REPRIMAND”

REPRIMAND n. 3 definitions
e or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.
REPRIMANDER n.
One who reprimands.
CENSURE n. 2 definitions
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. Excommunication or other censure of the church. Bp. Burnet.
LECTURE n.
A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.
NAME v.
To designate (a member) by name, as the Speaker does by way of reprimand.
REBUKE n.
A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment. For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Jer. xv. 15. Why bear you these rebukes and answer not Shak.
REPREHEND v.
To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure. Chaucer. Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish. Bacon. Pardon me for reprehending thee.…
SCHOOLING n.
Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling. Sir W. Scott.
SEVERITY n.
Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties. "Strict age, and sour severity." Milton.
SNEAP v. 2 definitions
To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
SNEB v.
To reprimand; to sneap. [Obs.] "Scold and sneb the good oak." Spenser.
SNIB n.
A reprimand; a snub. [Obs.] Marston.
SNUB v.
To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. J. Foster.
TAKE v.
To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate. One of his relations took him up roundly. L'Estrange.
TRIMMING n.
The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming. [Colloq.]