reprove

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman reprover, Middle French reprouver, from Latin reprobāre. Doublet of reprobate.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹuːv/
• Rhymes: -uːv

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

1. (intransitive) to express disapproval. [from 14th c.]
2. (transitive) to criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone. [from 14th c.]
   • 1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Proverbs IX.8:

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

3. (transitive) to prevent, avoid, deny or suppress (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.

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

• reproof
• reproval

re- +‎ prove

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

1. (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.

• Rhymes: -ɔvi

reprove

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of reprovar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of reprovar
3. third-person singular imperative of reprovar