Definition of "reprehension" [rep•re•hen•sion]

• The act of rebuking or censuring; reproval. (noun)

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• "Where Avicenna views comedy as the art of reprehension, we might wonder if this implies a fundamental recoognition of determina/monstrum, of that which “should not” happen."
• "What about section officers – or are they above your reprehension? on January 8, 2010 at 11: 19 am Bloody Analyst"
• "In case of this kind, the attempt to swindle a distressed father on account of his long lost child is in every way deserving of the severest reprehension."