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Word Meanings - REPROVINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a reproving manner.

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  • 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.

 

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