单词 | reprover |
释义 | reprovern. A person who or thing which reproves (reprove v.1). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > rebuker or reprover withtakera1340 reprovera1382 undernimmera1382 undertakerc1430 rebukerc1449 checker1535 reprehender1537 reprimander1729 expostulator1795 snubber1861 trouncer1898 α. β. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 189 (MED) Whan a man Is ouer-harde reprouet, he hatyth his reprowere.?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Sii An answere to the correcters, And of all workes reprouers.1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶ijv But now because I make account I haue to deale with three sundrie kindes of reproouers.1645 J. Marsh Marsh his Mickle Monument 46 We have reprovers plenty now adayes, And every Shepherds boy will be a teacher.1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxviii. 474 A wise and faithful reprover is of singular use.1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Counter-check A Censure made upon a Reprover.1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. x. 362 Sulpicius was..a reprover of the insolence of his own times.1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism i. 3 If Religion be deemed by these sarcastic reprovers altogether an illusion.1868 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 32 One kneeling as reproved..; the reprover, an erect ascetic figure, stands over him.1949 Times 6 Jan. 6/4 Unswerving in his devotion to the truth..he soon made himself a formidable reprover of the insincere in art.2003 W. I. Miller Faking It ii. 16 We tend not to be all that charitable to reprovers or rebukers of others' vices.a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxvii. 11 Studie to wisdam..that thou mowe to the repreuere [a1425 L. V. dispisere; L. exprobranti] answern a wrd. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 69 (MED) I haue þoght sum maner of answer to schew, & to repreuars fully not gyffe steed. a1475 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Cambr. Gg.1.16) (1893) 82 (MED) Thou foule synnar, what haste þou to answere þi reprevars, þat so ofte tymes haste offended thi god? a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 3 (MED) The furst founders of the noble realme of Fraunce..wer..lovers of vertue, reprevers of vices. 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. biii If I would say..That it [sc. music] were to be otherwise vsed, then it is, I should finde more repreeuers, then I could finde..skilfull of my meaning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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