单词 | reprehension |
释义 | reprehensionn. 1. a. The action of reprehending a person or thing; reproof, censure. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] telingeOE chastiment?c1225 snapinga1300 snibbinga1300 reproving?1316 undernimminga1325 correctiona1340 threapening1340 admonishingc1350 reproofa1375 scourgingc1374 correptionc1380 repreyningc1390 reprehensiona1413 undertakingc1430 rebuke?a1439 admonition1440 correptingc1449 rebut?c1450 reprehendingc1450 redargution1483 reproval1493 increpation1502 prisec1540 tasking1543 check1588 improof1590 snubbing1600 threap1636 compellation1656 reprovement1675 reprimanding1698 rowing1812 lecturing1861 carpeting1888 eldering1912 woodshedding1940 stick1956 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 684 Myn entenciown, Nys nought to yow of reprehencion To speke. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 32 Men preyse and alowe moche the fayr Myrro. But I trowe..ther shold be founden somwhat of Reprehencion. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxxvii. sig. N.iv Vse few wordes to them, excepte it be for reprehensyon, or gentyll reformacyon. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xiii. sig. I2 To a hart fully resolute, counsaile is tedious, but reprehension is lothsome. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xv. 200 To vse sharpe reprehension or correction for that carelessnes. 1678 R. L'Estrange Seneca's Life in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) p. xlv Exhorting them..sometimes by Good Counsel; otherwhile by Reprehension. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 67. ⁋12 That when they will not take private Reprehension, they may be tried further by a publick one. 1777 E. Burke Let. 31 Oct. (1961) III. 396 (note) If they are corrupt, they merit..blame and reprehension. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxi. 464 The Dean..had used strong language in reprehension of the Prebendary's acceptance. 1885 Truth 28 May 836/1 Such profligate extravagance is deserving of severe reprehension. 1929 R. Aldington Let. 22 Apr. in R. Aldington & H. D. Lives in Lett. (2003) 200 Don't you find that a sort of moral discouragement and reprehension emanates from the English? 1982 P. Fussell in Harper's Mag. Aug. 54/1 This reprehension of ghoulishness was attended by four gruesome color photographs intended specifically to gratify the ghoul in all of us. 2000 Amer. Indian Q. 24 335 Why would New Agers continue to consume Native American spirituality when so many Indian people have expressed their reprehension of this commercialization? b. A reproof, a reprimand. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of admonishingc1350 reproofc1400 fliting1435 rebuke?a1439 snibc1450 reprehensiona1500 redargution1514 remorda1529 piece of one's mind1536 check1541 snuba1556 rebuking1561 boba1566 sneap1600 snipping1601 reprimand1636 repriment1652 rubber1699 slap1736 twinkation1748 rap1777 throughgoing1817 dressing-down1823 downset1824 hazing1829 snubbing1841 downsetting1842 raking1852 calling1855 talking toc1875 rousting1900 strafe1915 strafing1915 raspberry1919 rousing1923 bottle1938 reaming1944 ticking-off1950 serve1967 a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 111 (MED) For þe loue of god þou owist to suffre reprehensions, humiliacions, confusions, correccions, & despites. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xvi. 28 Such exemplifying..might worke for a secret reprehension to others. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 192 He trieth her with sharpe reprehensions. 1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life xxii. 287 He finds them asleep, which occasioned that gentle reprehension from him. a1704 T. Brown Ess. Eng. Satyr in Wks. (1707) I. i. 38 His Writings contain'd as severe a reprehension as any others. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 656 An evidence and reprehension both Of the mere schoolboy's lean and tardy growth. View more context for this quotation 1836 W. S. Landor Pericles & Aspasia (1839) II. 71 Allow me, what is no great delicacy or delight to me, a reprehension, a censure. 1952 PMLA 67 311 His judges will not admit that church and state are so corrupt and thereby justify the reprehensions of the Molinists. 2006 Africa News (Nexis) 30 Jan. No matter what Sirleaf's reasons for possibly unheeding the international community, there could be costly reprehensions lying in wait. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [noun] gainsayingc1330 assoilinga1382 improvingc1443 unprovingc1449 lancing1470 redarguation?c1500 confutationa1530 redargution1529 reproof1529 confusion1530 disproof1531 reprehension1531 reproving1535 refutation?1536 improbation1556 refuting1563 disproving1587 conviction1593 infringement1593 refutal1599 gainsay1602 eviction1606 convincement1612 disproval1614 confutinga1617 improof1641 confutement1645 confute1646 refute1646 disprovement1662 reviction1677 invalidatinga1716 invalidation1771 rebutment1823 rebuttal1831 disconfirmation1937 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiv. sig. Hi Certayne partes of an oration; that is to say, for Narrations, Partitions, Confirmations, and Confutations, named of some Reprehensions. 1597 F. Bacon Of Coulers Good & Euill f. 22v, in Ess. It is not so properly a case or reprehension as it is a counter couler. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 347 Secondly, the solution, or reprehension thereof. 1682 J. Norris tr. Hierocles Golden Verses 70 Against the false, [we ought] to contend with force of argument,..and..follow the truth with mildness, with decent reprehensions to confute falshood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1413 |
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