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reprehensive, a.|rɛprɪˈhɛnsɪv|
[f. reprehend v.; cf. comprehensive, etc., and obs. F. reprehensif, -ive (Godef.).]
Of the nature of reprehension; containing reproof. Now rare.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xiii. (Arb.) 46 The said auncient Poets vsed for that purpose, three kinds of poems reprehensiue. 1592Nobody & Someb. in Simpson Sch. Shaks. (1878) I. 299 What I did speake in reprehensive sort. 1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 22 He answereth by an Interrogation, such as the Rhetoricians call..a question reprehensiue. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa i. Pref. 4 Words consolatory, Instructive, Reprehensive. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. xl. 231, I give you sincere thanks for every line of your reprehensive letters. 1825Culbertson Lect. Revel. xii. 160 The body of this epistle consists of two parts; one of which is commendatory, and the other reprehensive. 1845A. Duncan Disc. 159 The benignity of the Deity became a reprehensive witness, reproving and condemning their errors.
Hence repreˈhensively adv.
1631Celestina Ep. Ded. A iij b, Sithence it is written reprehensively, and not instructively. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 226 Xenophanes..reprehensively admonished the Egyptians after this manner. |