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Middle English
Noun
repreve
- reproof
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 15-16:
[...] ‘Besyde a welle Iesus, god and man,
Spak in repreve of the Samaritan:’ [...]- ‘Beside a well, Jesus, God and man,
Spoke in reproof of the Samaritan:’