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Reprimand vs. Reprehend — What's the Difference?

Reprimand vs. Reprehend — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Reprimand and Reprehend

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Reprimand

A reprimand is a severe, formal or official reproof. Reprimanding takes in different forms in different legal systems.

Reprehend

To reprove; censure.

Reprimand

To reprove (someone) severely, especially in a formal or official way.

Reprehend

To criticize, to reprove

Reprimand

A severe, formal, or official rebuke or censure.
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Reprehend

To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure.
Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish.
Pardon me for reprehending thee.
In which satire human vices, ignorance, and errors . . . are severely reprehended.
I nor advise nor reprehend the choice.

Reprimand

A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

Reprehend

Express strong disapproval of

Reprimand

To reprove in a formal or official way.

Reprimand

Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.

Reprimand

To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.
Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission.

Reprimand

To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.

Reprimand

An act or expression of criticism and censure;
He had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face

Reprimand

Rebuke formally

Reprimand

Censure severely or angrily;
The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

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