Word Meanings - REPROOF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Refutation; confutation; contradiction. 2. An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach. Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Pope. Syn. -- Admonition; reprehension;

Additional info about word: REPROOF

1. Refutation; confutation; contradiction. 2. An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach. Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Pope. Syn. -- Admonition; reprehension; chiding; reprimand; rebuke; censure; blame. See Admonition.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPROOF)

• Admonition
• Warning
• advice
• counsel
• caution
• reproof

Related words: (words related to REPROOF)

• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• COUNSEL
  fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. 1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. 2. Examination
• CAUTION
  scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care to be on the 1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail.
• COUNSELOR
  conseiler, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium 1. One who counsels; an adviser. Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no Shak. 2. A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign
• CAUTIONER
  A surety or sponsor. (more info) 1. One who cautions or advises.
• COUNSELORSHIP
  The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.
• COUNSELABLE
  1. Willing to receive counsel or follow advice. Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he. Clarendon. 2. Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise. He did not believe it counselable. Clarendon.
• WARNSTORE
  To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
• REPROOF
  1. Refutation; confutation; contradiction. 2. An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach. Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Pope. Syn. -- Admonition; reprehension;
• WARN
  To refuse. Chaucer.
• ADMONITION
  Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object
• WARNINGLY
  In a warning manner.
• WARNING
  Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel , a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.
• CAUTIONARY
  1. Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals. 2. Given as a pledge or as security. He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands. Bp. Burnet. 3. Wary; cautious. Bacon.
• WARNER
  One who warns; an admonisher.
• CAUTIONRY
  Suretyship.
• ADMONITIONER
  Admonisher.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• INCAUTION
  Want of caution. Pope.
• DISCOUNSEL
  To dissuade. Spenser.
• PRECAUTIONARY
  Of or pertaining to precaution, or precautions; as, precautionary signals.
• MISCOUNSEL
  To counsel or advise wrongly.
• DISWARN
  To dissuade from by previous warning.