Reprove

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Reprove - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

REPROVE, v.t. [L. reprobo; re and probo, to prove.]

1. To blame; to censure.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices - Psa 50.

2. To charge with a fault to the face; to chide; to reprehend. Luke 3.

3. To blame for; with of; as, to reprove one of laziness.

4. To convince of a fault, or to make it manifest.

John 16.

5. To refute; to disprove. [Not in use.]

6. To excite a sense of guilt. The heart or conscience reproves us.

7. To manifest silent disapprobation or blame.

The vicious cannot bear the presence of the good, whose very looks reprove them, and whose life is a severe, though silent admonition.

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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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