Reprove vs Unreproved - What's the difference?
reprove | unreproved |
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:
Not reproved.
*{{quote-book, year=1890, author=Theo. Stephenson Browne, title=In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda, chapter=, edition=
, passage=No good riding master will teach a pupil to cluck or will permit the practice to pass unreproved , and riding-school horses do not understand it, and are quite as likely to start at the cluck of a rider on the other side of the ring as they are when a similar noise is made by the person on their own backs. }}
As a verb reprove
is to express disapproval.As an adjective unreproved is
not reproved.reprove
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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 * reprovalunreproved
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Adjective
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