reprove

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English repreven, reproven, from Anglo-Norman reprover, Middle French reprouver, from Latin reprobāre. Doublet of reprobate.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹuːv/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -uːv

Verb

reprove (third-person singular simple present reproves, present participle reproving, simple past and past participle reproved)

(intransitive) to express disapproval. [from 14th c.]
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:reprehend
(transitive) to criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone. [from 14th c.]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Proverbs 9:8:
  Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
(transitive) to deny or reject (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.). [from 14th c.]
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 856:
  She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.

Derived terms

reproof
reproval

Translations

to convey one's disapproval of (something)

Bulgarian: порицавам (bg) (poricavam)
Finnish: moittia (fi), paheksua (fi)
German: rügen (de), tadeln (de), maßregeln (de), zurechtweisen (de), mahnen (de), ermahnen (de)
Indonesian: mencela (id)
Irish: spreag, ceartaigh
Italian: disapprovare (it), riprovare (it)
Korean: 꾸짖다 (ko) (kkujitda), 질책하다 (ko) (jilchaekhada)
Romanian: mustra (ro), certa (ro)
Scottish Gaelic: càin, cronaich, troid

to rebuke

Bulgarian: мъмря (bg) (mǎmrja), укорявам (bg) (ukorjavam)
Finnish: torua (fi), nuhdella (fi)

Etymology 2

re- +‎ prove

Alternative forms

re-prove

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈpɹuːv/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -uːv

Verb

reprove (third-person singular simple present reproves, present participle reproving, simple past reproved, past participle reproved or (rare) reproven)

(transitive) To prove again.
- 2012, Gary Stamper, Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior:
  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.
- 2015, Matthew Zawodniak, “A Moduli Space for Rational Homotopy Types with the Same Homotopy Lie Algebra”, in arXiv‎:
  Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɔvi

Verb

reprove

inflection of reprovar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative