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Meanings of reprehension in English

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An act or expression of criticism and censure.

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        1
        Of that peace Lord Mahon speaks in terms of the severest reprehension.
        Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
        2
        I say then, that reprehension and reprimand can scarcely ever be necessary.
        Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries / Inter...
        3
        If bad writers were to pass without reprehension, what should restrain them?
        The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 / ...
        4
        Steward, favoring the untidy and vulgar-looking girl with a glance full of reprehension.
        Wild Kitty
        5
        But it may be questioned whether Swanston really merited this reprehension.
        A Book of the Play / Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Sto...
        6
        All this would have subjected her to much reprehension had Faltonius Bambilio survived.
        The Unwilling Vestal
        7
        Repentance is an inward and self-reprehension for the neglect or
        Meditations
        8
        Moral reprehension, though present in her mind, was only faint.
        The Old Wives' Tale
        9
        She now opened all those floodgates of reprehension, which had been shut so long.
        The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
        10
        Now a reprehension is a stronger mode of demand.
        The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
        11
        This nobler reprehension, as we have sufficiently shown, was undertaken by Shakspere in his 'Hamlet.'
        Shakspere and Montaigne / An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency o...
        12
        The lower house penned petulant representations, and the archbishop answered them by verbal reprehension and admonition.
        The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro...
        13
        If we see occasion to interrogate ourselves, we need not listen to the reprehension of others.
        The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat,...
        14
        The face of Dr. Etherington flushed, then paled, and finally settled into a look of melancholy reprehension.
        The Monikins
        15
        The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but he that is poor, beareth not reprehension.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
        16
        So that the reader must refer the precepts which are now laid down, to the topics of confirmation and reprehension.
        The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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