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Word Meanings - EXPROBRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.

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  • EXPROBRATION
    Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.
  • FEARFULNESS
    The state of being fearful.
  • FEARFULLY
    In a fearful manner.
  • FEARFUL
    1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton. 2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful
  • REPROACHFUL
    1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak. 2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. Syn.
  • TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
    A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
  • ACCUSATION
    1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak. 2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or
  • UPBRAID
    twist, weave, or the kindred Icel. bregedha to draw, brandish, braid, 1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
  • PREACCUSATION
    Previous accusation.

 

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