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How to use reprove in a sentence

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Our repeated failure to reprove and adequately rebuke heresy calls into serious question our theological system.
Whoever is unpunctual deserves that other people should reprove him for being unpunctual.
There was no discipline to impose itself on this clowning, and no parental authority to reprove it.
Let not the apathetic or half-hearted imagine, however, that We agree with them when We reprove the erring and restrain the overbold.
Recently, residents have been stirred out of their habitual calm by a heavy-handed official effort to reprove their listening habits.
Not for your sacrifices do I reprove you, for your burnt offerings are ever before me.
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.
The seven spiritual works of mercy: teach the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, console the sad, reprove the sinner, forgive the offender, bear with the oppressive and troublesome, pray for the living and the dead.
Also that no Fellow, within the lodge or without it, shall misanswer or reprove another, without cause.
But Mr Cardoso had to reprove him publicly for refusing to talk.
Yahweh, do not punish me in your rage, or reprove me in the heat of anger.
This concerns me because those who are at the extreme of their resources right now are being asked to go further and reprove what has already been done.
As in the example of Saint Paul who publicly reprimanded Saint Peter, head of the Church, for a fault he had committed publicly, charity calls upon us to reprove a brother when he falls into error.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Examples from Classical Literature
Hence also the reproof of our own mode of life when we attempt to reprove others.
If my remnant of a conscience presumed to rise and reprove me, I stamped it down.
Thinking example better than precept, Furneaux did not reprove the giggler.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
However, he determined to wend his way to the inn and reprove him for his negligence.
Why should he not have left that matter to some masters of policy to reprove?
It must be my duty to reprove, to show her her deceit in its full enormity.
And even if he did speak of Peggy by her first name, was it Margaret's place to reprove him?
But, then, my conduct is so inconsistent with my profession, I don't wonder you reprove me.
Let us reprove them, or at least avoid them, as we would the plague.
But before I could call out and reprove them, the explanation of the matter occurred to me, and I withdrew behind a tree.
I reprove it in the sternest terms, and I deplore the consequences it had.
However, he offered no rebuttal, nor did he reprove his daughter.
And when, at the end of the week, Seth returned, a little weary and with coal soot in his ears and about his eyes, she again found herself unable to reprove him.
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