Definition of "reproved" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of reprove. (verb)

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• "There was nothing but a welcome for all the plays, many of them already so well known, especially through Professor Baker's dramatic classes at Harvard, that we were now and again reproved by some one in the audience if a line or passage were left out, by design or forgetfulness."
• "Samuel with a word reproved, and convicted, and silenced, and sentenced him."
• "The prophet having in God's name reproved the people for their sins, and given them warning of the judgments of God that were coming upon them, in this chapter prosecutes the same intention for their humiliation and awakening."