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  • 101advise — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To give advice] Syn. recommend, counsel, prescribe, exhort, direct, admonish, warn, caution, suggest, guide, steer, instruct, advocate, urge, prompt, encourage, coax, persuade, induce, charge, enjoin, dissuade, teach,… …

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  • 102chaste — [13] Chaste comes via Old French from Latin castus ‘pure’. The notion of making someone pure, by correcting or reproving them, was expressed in Latin by the derived verb castīgāre, which passed into English in the 17th century as castigate. Old… …

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  • 103castigate — (v.) c.1600, from L. castigatus, pp. of castigare to correct; to purify; chastise, punish, from castus pure (see CASTE (Cf. caste)) + agere to do. Sense of make someone pure by correcting or reproving him. If thou didst put this soure cold habit… …

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  • 104objurgation — (n.) 1540s, from L. objurgationem (nom. objurgatio) a chiding, reproving, reproof, noun of action from pp. stem of objurgare (see OBJURGATE (Cf. objurgate)) …

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  • 105reprove — [[t]rɪpru͟ːv[/t]] reproves, reproving, reproved VERB If you reprove someone, you speak angrily or seriously to them because they have behaved in a wrong or foolish way. [FORMAL] [V with quote] There s no call for talk like that, Mrs Evans… …

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  • 106catcall — n. scornful yell; reproving yell or cry v. yell scornfully, shout disapprovingly …

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  • 107catcalled — n. scornful yell; reproving yell or cry v. yell scornfully, shout disapprovingly …

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  • 108catcalling — n. scornful yell; reproving yell or cry v. yell scornfully, shout disapprovingly …

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  • 109catcalls — n. scornful yell; reproving yell or cry v. yell scornfully, shout disapprovingly …

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  • 110condemningly — adv. in condemnation, in a reproving manner …

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