reprove

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English repreven, reproven, from Anglo-Norman reprover, Middle French reprouver, from Latin reprobāre. Doublet of reprobate.

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reprove (third-person singular simple present reproves, present participle reproving, simple past and past participle reproved)

  1. (intransitive) To express disapproval. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:reprehend
  2. (transitive) To criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
  3. (transitive) To deny or reject (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).
    • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 856:
      She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.
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Etymology 2

From re- +‎ prove.

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reprove (third-person singular simple present reproves, present participle reproving, simple past reproved, past participle reproved or (rare) reproven)

  1. (transitive) To prove again.
    • 2012, Gary Stamper, Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior:
      As we've just learned, as long as we live in the manifest realm, a hero's journey is never over. We are constantly having to reprove ourselves.
    • 2015, Matthew Zawodniak, “A Moduli Space for Rational Homotopy Types with the Same Homotopy Lie Algebra”, in arXiv‎:
      Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper.

Portuguese

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reprove

  1. inflection of reprovar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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