reprove

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English repreven, reproven, from Anglo-Norman reprover, Middle French reprouver, from Latin reprobāre. Doublet of reprobate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹuːv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːv

Verb

reprove (third-person singular simple present reproves, present participle reproving, simple past and past participle reproved)

1. (intransitive) To express disapproval. [from 14th c.] (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:reprehend

2. (transitive) To criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone. [from 14th c.]
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 9:8:

     Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

3. (transitive) To deny or reject (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.). [from 14th c.]
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 856:

     She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.

Derived terms

• reproof
• reproval

Translations

to convey one's disapproval of (something)

Bulgarian: порицавам (bg) (poricavam) Finnish: moittia (fi), paheksua (fi) German: rügen (de), tadeln (de), maßregeln (de), zurechtweisen (de), mahnen (de), ermahnen (de) Indonesian: mencela (id) Irish: spreag, ceartaigh Italian: disapprovare (it), riprovare (it) Korean: 꾸짖다 (ko) (kkujitda), 질책하다 (ko) (jilchaekhada) Romanian: mustra (ro), certa (ro) Scottish Gaelic: càin, cronaich, troid

to rebuke

Bulgarian: мъмря (bg) (mǎmrja), укорявам (bg) (ukorjavam) Czech: kárat (cs) impf, pokárat pf, plísnit (cs) impf, vyplísnit pf Finnish: torua (fi), nuhdella (fi)

Etymology 2

From re- +‎ prove.

Alternative forms

• re-prove

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈpɹuːv/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːv

Verb

reprove (third-person singular simple present reproves, present participle reproving, simple past reproved, past participle reproved or (rare) reproven)

1. (transitive) To prove again.
   • 2012, Gary Stamper, Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior:

     As we've just learned, as long as we live in the manifest realm, a hero's journey is never over. We are constantly having to reprove ourselves.

   • 2015, Matthew Zawodniak, “A Moduli Space for Rational Homotopy Types with the Same Homotopy Lie Algebra”, in arXiv‎:

     Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔvi

Verb

reprove

1. inflection of reprovar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative