Sentence examples for reprehend from inspiring English sources

Thinking of the geography of contiguous countries, she spoke of the "geometry" of "contagious countries," and hoped that her daughter might "reprehend" the true meaning of what she is saying.

True, Mrs Beeton explained why "friendships should not be hastily formed", to ensure companions who "reprehend vice".

To call someone cruel is to reprehend him or her.

At the royal chapel in Whitehall, in 1662, Pepys scorns a "poor sermon" from some mitred killjoy, "reprehending the mistaken jollity of the Court for the true joy that shall and ought to be on these days".

Even sympathetic critics of "Hitler's Willing Executioners" noted that he played up evidence that suited him and skirted evidence that didn't, as an advocate is entitled and even expected to do, but for which an historian might be reprehended.