Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

reprove

 

to express disapproval directly to a person at fault

 

There is a connotative difference between rebuke and reprove: the former implies criticism, the latter correction.

 

Related English word: reproof (the act of reproving; something said in reproving)

 

Latin root words: reprobo, reprobare, reprobavi, reprobatus - to reprove; probo, probare, probavi, probatus - to prove; to approve of

 

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