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How to pronounce reprove in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms admonish, reproof
Type of criticise, criticize, knock, pick apart
Derivation reproval, reprover

Examples of reprove

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The job of the Holy Spirit is to teach us, guide us, comfort us and reprove us.
From the sacbee.com
Thank you, Martin, you are absolutely right to reprove me about this.
From the economist.com
So to seize the condo and cash, prosecutors will have to reprove that Lay committed crimes.
From the chron.com
He bore all with patience and constancy, and continued to reprove boldly the evils in Israel.
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Making these young horses reprove themselves has opened up some spots for those on the upswing.
From the kentucky.com
I wonder if people who have already been diagnosed will have to reprove their condition with this test?
From the guardian.co.uk
In Life as We Know It, Holly's friends, her assistant at the bakery and total strangers reprove her for being single.
From the time.com
Don't you think the slippery slope argument is sufficient reason for the public to reprove even the smallest fibs?
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They often quote such repugnant and recalcitrant colonialist like Churchill, as if what he says is beyond reprove.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Admonish: take to task; "He admonished the child for his bad behavior"
  • (reproval) rebuke: an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"
  • (reproving) admonitory: expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
  • (reproval) The act of reproving
  • (v.) to scold, rebuke (Lara reproved her son for sticking each and every one of his fingers into the strawberry pie.)
  • Admonish, convict, find fault. The work of the Holy Spirit will include the reproving of mankind (John 16:8).
  • (v) - to blame; to rebuke