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English
Etymology
From Latin exprobration: compare French exprobration.
Noun
exprobration (plural exprobrations)
- (obsolete) Reproachful accusation; upbraiding.
1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, : Sermon II. Part II.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. , volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. ; and Richard Priestley, , published 1822, →OCLC, page 27:For it will, it must needs be a fearful exprobration of our unworthiness, when the Judge himself shall bear witness against us, that the wisdom of God himself was strangely employed in bringing us safely to felicity.