upbraiding
noun1
An instance of severe criticism or rebuke.
- I wish to bring comfort and avoid upbraidings: for your own conscience will reproach you more than the voice of a preacher.1798, Elizabeth Inchbald, Lovers' Vows, Act IV, Scene I:
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Obsolete An instance of vomiting
- The seed wasteth and consumeth winde, and is good against belchings and upbraidings of the stomach, alaieth gripings of the belly, provoketh urine gently, maketh abundance of milke, and stirreth up bodily lust: it staieth the laske, and also the white flux in women1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Anise”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 880: