chiding

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Verb

chiding

  1. present participle and gerund of chide

Noun

chiding (plural chidings)

  1. A scolding.
    • 1832, The Rural Repository Devoted to Polite Literature, volume 9, page 2:
      The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]

Adjective

chiding (comparative more chiding, superlative most chiding)

  1. Reproachful; critical.
    • 1592, Joannes Ludovicus, A very fruteful and pleasant boke called the Instruction of a christen woman, page 254:
      it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife.
    • 1849, Charles Thomas Longley, The Bishop of Ripon Versus the Vicar of Harewood, page 49:
      And the said Mr. Hale did not say this in a chiding, quarrelsome, or brawling manner.
    • 1903, Karl Mantzius, A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times, page 86:
      How expressive this little parenthesis: "Sakuntalâ makes a chiding gesture with her finger"!

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