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reprove

verb
/ɹɪˈpɹuːv/UK/ɹiːˈpɹuːv/UK

Etymology

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

  1. derived from reprobāre
  2. derived from reprouver
  3. derived from reprover
  4. inherited from repreven

Definitions

  1. To express disapproval.

  2. To criticise, rebuke, or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.

    • Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

  3. To deny or reject (as a feeling, behaviour, action, etc.).

    • She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To prove again.

      • 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.
      • Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reprove. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at reprove. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at reprove

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA