reproof

«reproof» in Mova's school dictionary: a sharp word or talk that tells someone they have done wrong — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (reproofs)

meaning for a pupil

A reproof is a sharp word or talk that tells someone they have done wrong. tree →

sense in the lessons

a wise person gives a reproof to a greedy or rude character

examples

• The teacher gave him a stern reproof. tree →
• She took the reproof with a red face. tree →
• Her father's reproof made him say sorry. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof;
• They would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof.
• And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
• For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life;
• He is in the way of life that heedeth instruction; but he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «reproof» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.