KJV Dictionary Definition: reprovable

reprovable

REPROVABLE, a. from reprove. Worthy of reproof; deserving censure; blamable.

reprove

REPROVE, v.t. L. reprobo; re and probo, to prove.

1. To blame; to censure.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices - Ps. 50.

2. To charge with a fault to the face; to chide; to reprehend. Luke 3.

3. To blame for; with of; as, to reprove one of laziness.

4. To convince of a fault, or to make it manifest.

John 16.

5. To refute; to disprove. Not in use.

6. To excite a sense of guilt. The heart or conscience reproves us.

7. To manifest silent disapprobation or blame.

The vicious cannot bear the presence of the good, whose very looks reprove them, and whose life is a severe, though silent admonition.

reproved

REPROVED, pp. Blamed; reprehended; convinced of a fault.

reprover

REPROVER, n. One that reproves; he or that which blames. Conscience is a bold reprover.

reproving

REPROVING, ppr. Blaming; censuring.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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