Etymology From Middle English repreven, reproven, from Anglo-Norman reprover, Middle French reprouver, from Latin reprobāre. Doublet of reprobate.
1
To express disapproval.
2
To criticise, rebuke, or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 9:8:
3
To deny or reject (as a feeling, behaviour, action, etc.).
She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 856
As we've just learned, as long as we live in the manifest realm, a hero's journey is never over. We are constantly having to reprove ourselves.2012, Gary Stamper, Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior:
Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper.2015, Matthew Zawodniak, “A Moduli Space for Rational Homotopy Types with the Same Homotopy Lie Algebra”, in arXiv: