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Reproof vs Dispraise - What's the difference?

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Reproof is a related term of dispraise.


As verbs the difference between reproof and dispraise

is that reproof is to proof again while dispraise is to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.

As a noun reproof

is act or instance of reproving; a rebuke.

reproof

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Act or instance of reproving; a rebuke.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To proof again.
    • We need to reproof the book before publication.

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    dispraise

    English

    Verb

  • To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
  • *1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
  • *:They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
  • *1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • *:Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
  • *1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 157:
  • *:He became familiar with that habit of mind which dispraises what it most envies and admires: with that habit of mind which desires only what it cannot have.