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Word Meanings - TROUNCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. (more info) Etym:

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  • ADMONISHER
    One who admonishes.
  • SCOLDER
    1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
  • CHIDESTER
    A female scold.
  • REPRIMAND
    Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay. (more info) reprimenda, that is to be checked or suppressed, fr. reprimere to check, repress; pref. re-
  • SCOLDINGLY
    In a scolding manner.
  • CHIDER
    One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
  • OBJURGATE
    To chide; to reprove. (more info) + jurgare to quarrel, scold, fr. jus right, court. See
  • BLAME
    LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
  • BLAMER
    One who blames. Wyclif.
  • CHIDERESS
    She who chides.
  • 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;
  • REBUKE
    1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment. For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Jer. xv. 15. Why bear you these rebukes and answer not Shak. 2. Check; rebuff. L'Estrange. To be without rebuke, to live without
  • TROUNCE
    To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. (more info) Etym:
  • REPROVER
    One who, or that which, reproves.
  • SCOLDING
    a. & n. from Scold, v. Scolding bridle, an iron frame. See Brank, n., 2.
  • BLAMEFUL
    1. Faulty; meriting blame. Shak. 2. Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.
  • REBUKEFUL
    Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. -- Re*buke"ful*ly, adv.
  • REPRIMANDER
    One who reprimands.
  • ADMONISHMENT
    Admonition. Shak.
  • BLAMEWORTHY
    Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n.
  • ORCHIDEOUS
    See ORCHIDACEOUS
  • DISBLAME
    To clear from blame. Chaucer.
  • SCOLD
    To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant. Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold. Shak.
  • ORCHIDEAN
    Orchidaceous.
  • FOREADMONISH
    To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event. Bp. Hall.
  • SELF-REPROVED
    Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.

 

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