Definitions for reprehension

reprehension rep·re·hen·sion

Spelling: [rep-ri-hen-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌrɛp rɪˈhɛn ʃən/

Reprehension is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 624 anagrams from letters in reprehension (eeehinnoprrs).

Definitions for reprehension

noun

  1. the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.

Origin of reprehension

1325-75; Middle English Latin reprehēnsiōn- (stem of reprehēnsiō), equivalent to reprehēns(us) (past participle of reprehendere to reprehend) + -iōn- Examples for reprehension

To be at task, therefore, is to be liable to reprehension and correction.

You look at me as if you thought this reprehension were undeserved!

The day had not yet arrived when the great were to endure the freedom of reprehension.

But it may be questioned whether Swanston really merited this reprehension.

She now opened all those floodgates of reprehension, which had been shut so long.

An act like this cannot be committed and nobody be deserving of reprehension.

Their presumption is so notorious, that, either by disgust or alarm, it keeps off reprehension.

It behoveth therefore such a one to be free from all cause of reprehension.

He to whom my reprehension does not apply, will not receive it.

I say then, that reprehension and reprimand can scarcely ever be necessary.

Word Value for reprehension
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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