Difference between reprehend and reprove
Definitions
verb
- express strong disapproval of
Examples
Aye used to reprehend him to use his right hand when he was a little boy, but he wasn't very successful and the king always had his way.
And that such as have a great and false opinion of their own wisdom take upon them to reprehend the actions and call in question the authority of them that govern, and so to unsettle the laws with their public discourse, as that nothing shall be a crime but what their own designs require should be so.
I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his grace's tharborough: but I would see his own person in flesh and blood.
Definitions
verb
- take to task
Examples
The teacher gently reproved the boys for not paying attention.
Growing up bilingual in English and German, Hobsbawm picked up three or four other languages along the way (he reproves monoglot historians for their provincialism).
I have thought it, for example, not humane to variegate the text of an Anthology with despairing obeli: and occasionally I have covered up an indubitable lacuna by artifices which I trust may pass undetected by the general reader and unreproved by the charitable critic.
