Word Meanings - REPROVINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a reproving manner.
Related words: (words related to REPROVINGLY)
- MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - REPROVE
1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - REPROVABLE
Worthy of reproof or censure. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- Blamable; blameworthy; censurable; reprehensible; culpable; rebukable. --Re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*prov"a*bly, adv. - REPROVER
One who, or that which, reproves. - REPROVAL
Reproof. Sir P. Sidney. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - REPROVINGLY
In a reproving manner. - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - IRREPROVABLE
Incapable of being justly reproved; irreproachable; blameless; upright. -- Ir`re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*prov"a*bly, adv. - SELF-REPROVINGLY
In a self-reproving way. - SELF-REPROVING
Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - SELF-REPROVED
Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - UNREPROVED
1. Not reproved. Sandys. 2. Not having incurred reproof, blameless. In unreproved pleasures free. Milton. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.