REPROVE, L. reprobo re and probo, to prove.

1. To blame to censure.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices - Psalms 50 .

2. To charge with a fault to the face to chide to reprehend. Luke 3 .
3. To blame for with of as, to reprove one of laziness.
4. To convince of a fault, or to make it manifest.

John 16 .

5. To refute to disprove. Not in use.
6. To excite a sense of guilt. The heart or conscience reproves us.
7. To manifest silent disapprobation or blame.

The vicious cannot bear the presence of the good, whose very looks reprove them, and whose life is a severe, though silent admonition.