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- noun Plural form of
reprover .
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Examples
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And afterwards were those who reproved for the sake of heaven; and then that degenerated and there were many reprovers for the sake of heaven.
What do the GOP and Hareidim have in common? | Jewschool 2006
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And then that degenerated for there were many reprovers who were not genuine.
What do the GOP and Hareidim have in common? | Jewschool 2006
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This shall have from every one, even the reprovers of vice, the title of living well.
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Calvin, like English Version, translates, "masters" that is, self-constituted censors and reprovers of others Jas 4: 12 accords with this view.
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At Romfrey Castle he fell upon an audience that became transformed into a swarm of chatterers, advisers, and reprovers the instant his lips were parted.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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At Romfrey Castle he fell upon an audience that became transformed into a swarm of chatterers, advisers, and reprovers the instant his lips were parted.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Church by the power of the Nonconformists 'antipathy to religious establishments and endowments, and see whether what our reprovers beautifully call ministering to the diseased spirit of our time is best done by the Hellenising method of proceeding, or by the other.
Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1855
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And therefore impatient reformers, and denouncing preachers, and hasty reprovers, and angry parents, and irritable relatives generally fail, in their several departments, to reclaim the erring.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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They are bound, in faithfulness to their commission, to mix even among the worst of men; not, indeed, as companions, but as instructors, reprovers, and guides.
Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848
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The inspired interrogatory, "thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?" enforces this principle; and the maxim of common sense, that "reprovers must have clean hands," is no less unequivocal.
An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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