Reproof

Definitions

An act or instance of reproving or of reprobating; a rebuke, a reproach, an admonition.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“You could not give⟳ me a greater reproof for the mistake⟳ I fell into. It was all my doing, I know⟳. I have⟳ not forgotten it, I assure you.”

“On at least one such occasion, in L.N.E.R. days, I discovered later that what I had written was precisely what the authorities wanted to be said, though it would have⟳ been highly impolitic for my chief to have⟳ given me this information rather than the formal reproof that I received!”

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