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▪ I. reproving, vbl. n.|rɪˈpruːvɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The action of the verb in various senses; reproof. αc1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 47 It is a remembraunce, amonestynge, a reprouynge. c1440Jacob's Well 6 Þe more þe cursed man is styred..wyth þe wynd of techyng & of reprovyng. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xlviii. 10 He was ordeyned in the reprouynges in tyme. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 242 The worst is but deniall and reproouing. a1791Wesley Serm. Wks. 1811 IX. 265 A spirit of reproving. 1850W. C. Bennett Baby May Poems 12 Tiny scorns of smiled reprovings That have more of love than lovings. βc1325Chron. Eng. 850 Bituene Edrich ant the kyng Aros a repreofing. c1400Mandeville (1839) Prol. 1 There it lykede him to suffre many Reprevinges and Scornes for us. c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. ii. 42 The meke men receiuyng repreuinges..is in pes wel ynowe. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 152 Thay lykit not my..Praying, fasting, nor repreuing. ▪ II. reˈproving, ppl. a. [-ing2.] That reproves.
1382Wyclif Amos v. 10 Thei hadden in hate the repreuynge man in the ȝate. 1795Southey Joan of Arc iv. 343 Then the Maid Fix'd on the warrior her reproving eye. |