KJV Dictionary Definition: upbraid

upbraid

UPBRA'ID, v.t.

1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast in the teeth; followed by with or for, before the thing imputed; as, to upbraid a man for his folly or his intemperance.

Yet do not upbraid us with our distress.

He upbraided them with their unbelief. Matt. 16.

The use of to and of, after upbraid, as to upbraid a man of his gain by iniquity, to upbraid to a man his evil practices, has been long discontinued.

2. To reproach; to chide.

God who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. James 1.

3. To reprove with severity.

Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done - Matt. 11.

4. To bring reproach on.

How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!

5. To treat with contempt. Obs.

upbraided

UPBRA'IDED, pp. Charged with something wrong or disgraceful; reproached; reproved.

upbraider

UPBRA'IDER, n. One who upbraids or reproves.

upbraiding

UPBRA'IDING, ppr. Accusing; casting in the teeth; reproaching; reproving.

UPBRA'IDING, n.

1. A charging with something wrong or disgraceful; the act of reproaching or reproving.

I have too long borne your blunt upbraidings.

2. The reproaches or accusations of conscience.

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