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单词 reprehension
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reprehensionn.

Brit. /ˌrɛprᵻˈhɛnʃn/, U.S. /ˌrɛprəˈhɛnʃ(ə)n/
Forms: late Middle English reprehencioun, late Middle English reprehencyone, late Middle English reprehencyoun, late Middle English reprehensyoun, late Middle English–1500s reprehencion, late Middle English–1500s reprehencyon, late Middle English– reprehension, 1500s–1600s reprehensyon, 1500s–1600s reprehention; also Scottish pre-1700 reprehensione, pre-1700 reprehensioun.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French reprehension; Latin reprehensiōn-, reprehensiō.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French reprehension (French répréhension ) censure, criticism (12th cent. in Old French), instance of criticism, particular criticism (1378 or earlier) and its etymon classical Latin reprehensiōn-, reprehensiō act of censuring or finding fault, particular criticism, refutation < reprehens- , past participial stem of reprehendere reprehend v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare reprehend v., reprehensible adj.
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.
2. A refutation of a statement or argument; a (logical) proof of fallacy. Obsolete.
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).
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