reprehend

[ rep-ri-hend ]

verb (used with object)

1. to reprove or find fault with; rebuke; censure; blame.

   Synonyms: admonish, chide, upbraid, reproach

reprehend

/ ˌrɛprɪˈhɛnd /

verb

1. tr to find fault with; criticize

Derived Forms

• ˌrepreˈhender, noun
• ˌrepreˈhendable, adjective

Other Words From

• repre·henda·ble adjective
• repre·hender noun
• unrep·re·hended adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of reprehend¹

1300–50; Middle English reprehenden < Latin reprehendere to hold back, restrain, equivalent to re- re- + prehendere to seize; prehension

Word History and Origins

Origin of reprehend¹

C14: from Latin reprehendere to hold fast, rebuke, from re- + prendere to grasp

Example Sentences

The Iewes at Roan so preuailed with him by gifts, that they drew him to reprehend one who had forsaken their superstition.

From Project Gutenberg

A man makes his conscience dumb by the very sins that require a conscience trumpet-tongued to reprehend them.

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But as you know these poets, when they are not theologists like you, will always reprehend others, and despise the theologists.

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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

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My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

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