Upbraid

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

Upbraid - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

UPBRA'ID, v.t.

1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast in the teeth; followed by with or for, before the thing imputed; as, to upbraid a man for his folly or his intemperance.

Yet do not upbraid us with our distress.

He upbraided them with their unbelief. Mat 16.

[The use of to and of, after upbraid, as to upbraid a man of his gain by iniquity, to upbraid to a man his evil practices, has been long discontinued.]

2. To reproach; to chide.

God who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. James 1.

3. To reprove with severity.

Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done - Mat 11.

4. To bring reproach on.

How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!

5. To treat with contempt. Obs.

Source of the article

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

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