Reprove vs Adjudge - What's the difference?
reprove | adjudge | Related terms |
to express disapproval.
to criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, Proverbs IX.8:
to prevent, avoid, deny or suppress (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 856:
To declare to be.
To deem or determine to be.
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To award judicially; to assign.
*XIX c. , James Russell Lowell,
*:What doth the poor man's son inherit?
*:Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
*:A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
*:Content that from employment springs
Reprove is a related term of adjudge.
As verbs the difference between reprove and adjudge
is that reprove is to express disapproval while adjudge is to declare to be.reprove
English
Verb
(reprov)- Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
- She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* reproof * reprovaladjudge
English
Verb
(en-verb)citation, page= , passage=City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.}}
