reproof

From Old French reprove, from reprover. See reprove.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹuːf/

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• Rhymes: -uːf

reproof (countable and uncountable, plural reproofs)

1. An act or instance of reproving or of reprobating; a rebuke, a reproach, an admonition.
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 13:

     You could not give me a greater reproof for the mistake I fell into. It was all my doing, I know. I have not forgotten it, I assure you.

   • 1956 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 4:

     On at least one such occasion, in L.N.E.R. days, I discovered later that what I had written was precisely what the authorities wanted to be said, though it would have been highly impolitic for my chief to have given me this information rather than the formal reproof that I received!

From re- +‎ proof.

• re-proof

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈpɹuːf/

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• Rhymes: -uːf

reproof (third-person singular simple present reproofs, present participle reproofing, simple past and past participle reproofed)

1. To proof again.

   We need to reproof the book before publication.

• proofer