Read full poem →And be to them a laughter and a jest:
But as for them which scorning shall reprove[457] thee,
Disdain their wits, and think thine own the best.
Dictionary Entry
To express disapproval.
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Common Phrases
. reprovethee reprovereprove rather
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Poetry examples for “reprove”
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Read full poem →Better a thousand times for love,
Who should my secret soul reprove?
Beholding one like her, a man
Read full poem →As self should be at all named "love!"
Your sanctity the priests reprove;
Your case of grief they wholly miss;
Read full poem →And am forlorn, (alas! why am I lorn?)
She deigns not my good will, but doth reprove,
And of my rural music holdeth scorn.
Read full poem →In such delights did joy amongst my peers;
But riper age such pleasures doth reprove:
My fancy eke from former follies move
Read full poem →"My fondest--faintest--latest accents hear--[ht]
Grief for the dead not Virtue can reprove; 360
Then give me all I ever asked--a tear,[203]
Read full poem →The matron's glance that would those looks reprove;
Read full poem →The bashful virgin's sidelong look of love,
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove:
These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,
Read full poem →If fortune fixed her as my lady there, 30
There already, to eternally reprove me?
("Hist!"--said Kate the queen;