Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Reprove

Reprove (r?-pr??v") , transitive verb

[French réprouver, Old French reprover, from Latin reprobare. See Reprieve, Reprobate, and compare Reproof.]

1.
To convince. [Obsolete]
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. [Obsolete]
Reprove my allegation, if you can. — Shakespeare
3.
To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.
What if thy son
Prove disobedient, and, reproved, retort, “Wherefore didst thou beget me?” — Milton
4.
To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.
He neither reproved the ordinance of John, neither plainly condemned the fastings of the other men. — Udall