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- adjective That may be
reproved .
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Examples
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I now perceive it was not altogether your brothers evil disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reproveable badness in himself.
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I now perceive, it was not altogether your brothers evil disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reproveable badness in himself.
Act III. Scene V 1909
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If thou woulded: hearken to the ipirit, that is the reprover, that convinceth of fin, thou mud turn away thy mind from that which will lead into thofe things that are reproveable, otherv/ife thou wilt be under condemnation in thine own lofom.
Scripture truths demonstrated, in thirty-two sermons; or, Declarations of Stephen Crisp 1787
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More it yieldeth private persons worthy of dignity, rule and governance: it compelleth the emperors, high rulers, and governors to do noble deeds to the end they may obtain immortal glory: it exciteth, moveth and stirreth the strong, hardy warriors, for the great laud that they have after they lie dead, promptly to go in hand with great and hard perils in defence of their country: and it prohibiteth reproveable persons to do mischievous deeds for fear of infamy and shame.
John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925
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