How To Use Reproving In A Sentence
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Our own badness is so far from excusing us in not reproving, that our being by it rendered unfit to reprove is an aggravation of our badness; I must not say, "I have a beam in my own eye, and therefore I will not help my brother with the mote out of his.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The sound carries me back, for it was the first to greet me when I rose to draw water and gather kindling in my roadmender days; and if I slip back another decade they survey me, reproving my laziness, from the foot of the narrow bed in my little attic overseas.
The Roadmender
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The lady, beholding this and seeing herself alone, fell into that same appetite which had gotten hold of her nuns, and arousing Masetto, carried him to her chamber, where, to the no small miscontent of the others, who complained loudly that the gardener came not to till the hortyard, she kept him several days, proving and reproving that delight which she had erst been wont to blame in others.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Jehovah ; for it is thenceforth that the prophets, in reproving
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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I felt the blood rush to my face, and I saw others glance around reprovingly when a city girl who sat behind me, and carried on a whispered flirtation with a fopling at her side during Mr. Rhodes's speech, drawled:
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
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If thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it; neither God nor his prophet shall be any losers by it; but the prophet shall be rewarded for his faithfulness in reproving the sinner, and God will have the glory of his justice in condemning him for not taking the reproof.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Nicholas Woodeson savours every line of the rantipole, self-regarding Mr Prince who proudly announces "I am the American King Lear" and Keeley Hawes elegantly makes a case for Ben's reproving but desolate wife.
Review | Theatre | Rocket to the Moon | Venue | Michael Billington
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Those whom God leaves out of selection he is also reproving, and for no other reason than that he wills to exclude them.
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Now, however, he was looking straight at her, eyes direct, face serious and tone reproving.
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She was idly wondering what a "vair" might be when her dreams were crashed into by mother's reproving voice: "Missy, what are you doing?
Missy
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“Can you, with an unreproving conscience, say they have been undeserved?” asked Mr. Dacres.
Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments
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His tone was gently reproving, but I was determined not to let him talk me down.
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I can hardly believe it possible, John," his father's friend said, as he turned towards him a sad, yet unreproving countenance.
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
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Ah!" he said again, with a reproving wag of the head, for he knew now what was coming, -- "idols are perverse, camstairy things at best, you know, and a bit out of date too.
Pearl of Pearl Island
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But such confidence as she could obtain, she was ready to repay by the most unreproving pity and the most ready service.
Zanoni
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Hereby he teaches us that in reproving others we should take care to convince them that our reproofs do not proceed from any private pique or resentment, but from a sincere regard to the honour of God and religion and their truest welfare; for they are then likely to be most successful when they appear to be most disinterested.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Can't you sea I'm busy?' said Chueh - hui roughly, as if reproving her for persisting.
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When the duke arrived on the spot, the carnage was over, but he was unreproving as he inspected the gruesome result.
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
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A decision not to act is in itself a response, he said, reprovingly - and an escalatory one.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was not doing anything that he called wrong, and full purposing to do everything that was right; exalting Lady Charlotte in his imagination alike for the favours she granted, and those which she withheld; and taking credit to himself for the homage that he rendered to the excellencies of Isabella, he banished from his mind all thoughts of the future, except such as referred to the excellent conduct which he was then to withhold, and gave himself wholly to the display of that magnificent hospitality and festive profusion, which could only have been well placed in the days of unimpaired fortunes and an unreproving conscience.
Isabella. A Novel
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Do not overdo your privilege of reproving me.
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This may give us occasion to observe that, in reproving sin and error, we should always distinguish between the leaders and the led, such as set themselves to draw others thereinto and such as are drawn aside by them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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There's nothing a working man can reply to that so I let him go on, gently reproving me.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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If he had a weakness, it was for thinking that all his life he had taken medicine boldly, and so now, when Michael dodged the spoon in Nana's mouth, he had said reprovingly, "Be a man, Michael.
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Ministers must be faithful to great men in reproving them for their sins, but they must not be rude and uncivil to them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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These things, saith Aesop after his reproving way, ought rather to have been discussed privately among ourselves, lest we be accounted antimonarchical while we desire to be esteemed friends and loyal counsellors.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Ross watched her deteriorate in gloomy and unreproving silence.
The Second Generation
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she spoke to him reprovingly
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So I caught one of the hands that were lying limply on the coverlet, bent forward and said softly, reprovingly: "You silly young muggins, why did you go and do a daft thing like that?
Fear is the Key
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Reliques he had left behind him, I meane the Friars hood and Cowle, which shewing to their sister, and sharpely reproving her unwomanly behaviour: they left her in no meane discomfort, returning home to their owne houses, with their conquered spolle of the forlorne
The Decameron
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Therefore he was resolved to be faithful in reproving sin, though he was therein found to be such as they would not, v. 20.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Michael shot her a reproving glance, so she covered her mouth in mock penitence.
MORE TALES OF THE CITY
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Megan quickly slapped her hand away from her mouth and gave her a reproving look.
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Do not overdo your privilege of reproving or castigating me.
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Mrs. Omdorff was not satisfied with the conduct of her child; and yet she was amused at what she called his cuteness, and laughed instead of reproving him for an act that was in spirit a theft.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle
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Then it seemed as if Florence were looking at me, frowning, slightly reproving.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Elijah was a man of great austerity and mortification, zealous for God, bold in reproving sin, and active to reduce an apostate people to God and their duty; John Baptist was animated by the same spirit and power, and preached repentance and reformation, as Elias had done; and all held him for a prophet, as they did Elijah in his day, and that his baptism was from heaven, and not of men.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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And hereby he teaches us that, in reproving others, as we should be faithful, so we should also be gentle, and endeavour to restore them in the spirit of meekness, ch. vi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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He fixed her with a mildly reproving glance which diluted quickly into a fond grin.
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Oh, no -- no; many motives conspired to send her into solitude, that she might in the sanctity of unreproving nature cherish her affection for the youth whose image was ever, ever before her.
Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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The spiritual man also judges by approving what is right and reproving what he finds amiss in the works and morals of the faithful, such as in their almsgiving, which is signified by the phrase, "The earth bringing forth its fruit.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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She threw him an angry and reproving look/glance.
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She threw him an angry and reproving look/glance.
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At first the little Princess conducted herself haughtily towards them, and the Pine had taken immense pains in reproving and remonstrating with her on the subject, until at last he had rendered her more tractable, and she had grown accustomed to the society of these poor people.
The Princess Ilsée: A Fairy Tale
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Mollie peered round the corner with her shoulders huddled in a shawl, and her face at once so cheerful, so unreproving, and so bleached with cold, that it was not in human nature to refuse the desired invitation.
The Fortunes of the Farrells
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Pegler gave him a swift, reproving look, while Leslie pretended not to have heard what her husband had said.
THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
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Certain Israelite money-lenders, who hated him because he would not wink at their sweating and extortions, saw in this an opportunity to overthrow him; so they reported to some leading Jews in England that he had tortured the boys, whom he had not, in point of fact, punished in any way beyond reproving them.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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There is need of a great deal of meekness in reproving those who deserve reproof.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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When he gasped aloud Gina said gently, as if reprovingly, "Initial pain increase is common.
FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
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Nicholas Woodeson savours every line of the rantipole, self-regarding Mr Prince who proudly announces "I am the American King Lear" and Keeley Hawes elegantly makes a case for Ben's reproving but desolate wife.
Review | Theatre | Rocket to the Moon | Venue | Michael Billington
