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Reproving

adjective
1.
Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective.  Synonyms: admonishing, admonitory, reproachful.



Reprove

verb
(past & past part. reproved; pres. part. reproving)
1.
Take to task.  Synonym: admonish.



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"Reproving" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mr. Yollop at all behindhand in taking similar precautions to secure the new convert permanently, after having once caught him. Every word these two gentlemen spoke only served to harden the lad afresh, and to deaden the reproving and reclaiming influence of his mother's affectionate looks and confiding words. "I should get nothing by it, even if I could turn over a new leaf;" thought Zack, shrewdly and angrily, when his father or his father's friend favored him with a little improving advice: "Here they ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins

... but kept his devious course. Private Mucklewame, who liked to do things decently and in order, stepped heavily out of the hedge into the middle of the road, and repeated his question in a reproving voice. There ...
— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay

... right after all,' he said to himself. 'If he were just to let his beard grow, he would be exactly like'— His sentence was left unfinished, for at this moment he heard his mistress' voice reproving them for neglecting their duty, and they all ...
— The Young Carpenters of Freiberg - A Tale of the Thirty Years' War • Anonymous

... door open, but I heard mother's calm voice, gently reproving Jane for an unseemly giggle. A pair of arms crept round my neck, and slim white fingers cupped my chin. Kate did not know that it was I who had so nearly sent her sweetheart to an untimely grave, ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough

... the old magician, The eternal bard and hero, Through the heart, and through the liver, Through the head, and through the shoulders, With this bow and feathered arrows Thus destroy my rival minstrel." Then the aged mother answered, Thus reproving, thus forbidding. Do not slay good Wainamoinen, Ancient hero of the Northland, From a noble tribe descended, He, my sister's son, my nephew. If thou slayest Wainamoinen, Ancient son of Kalevala, Then alas! all joy will vanish, Perish all our wondrous ...
— The Kalevala (complete) • John Martin Crawford, trans.


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