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Webster 1913 Edition

(-sh?n)

Noun.

[L.

reprehensio

: cf. F.

répréhension

Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.

This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret

reprehension

that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus.

Sir P. Sidney.

Syn. – Censure; reproof; reprimand. See

Noun.

[L. reprehensio.]

Reproof; censure; open blame. Faults not punishable, may deserve reprehension.

See also: reprehensión

reprehension ‎(plural reprehensions)