reprehensive

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Containing reprehension or reproof.

   • Christ's reply ; in which , by a reprehensive shortness , he both clears the man's innocence , and vindicates God's proceedings , and so states them both upon a right foundation
   • He stops at Winna's reprehensive stare.
   • By the last two periods of the corpus, indeed, craindre deveolps a reprehensive interpretation, arising with certain specific contextual factors to yield a flavor of reproach (or apology).
2. 2

   Reprehensible.

   • Well, there would not be anything particularly reprehensive in a plaintiff wanting to go to a forum where the verdict would be larger.
   • But today in South Africa, a Black Christ is politically offensive; today in England a Black God is theatrically reprehensive; today in the United States, the only white-approved dark deity is Marc Connelly's De Lawd.
   • She added, 'Räsänen claims homosexuality is a negative and reprehensive personal attribute and identity, and that all homosexuals are inferior as human beings.'

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