REPROVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reproving mean? 

• REPROVING (adjective)
  The adjective REPROVING has 1 sense:

1. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

  Familiarity information: REPROVING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPROVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

Synonyms:

admonishing; admonitory; reproachful; reproving

Similar:

unfavorable; unfavourable (not encouraging or approving or pleasing)

 Context examples 

"Jo does use such slang words!" observed Amy, with a reproving look at the long figure stretched on the rug.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was as if I had seen her admiringly and tenderly embracing Dora, and tacitly reproving me, by her considerate protection, for my hot haste in fluttering that little heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Another paper, in deadly seriousness, reproving Helen Della Delmar for her parody, said: But unquestionably Miss Delmar wrote it in a moment of badinage and not quite with the respect that one great poet should show to another and perhaps to the greatest.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His mother represented power; and as he grew older he felt this power in the sharper admonishment of her paw; while the reproving nudge of her nose gave place to the slash of her fangs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Item, that upon brother Ambrose reproving him for this blasphemous wish, he did hold the said brother face downwards over the piscatorium or fish-pond for a space during which the said brother was able to repeat a pater and four aves for the better fortifying of his soul against impending death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)