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Upbraid   /ˈəpbrˌeɪd/   Listen
noun
Upbraid  n.  The act of reproaching; contumely. (Obs.) " Foul upbraid."



verb
Upbraid  v. i.  (past & past part. upbraided; pres. part. upbraiding)  
1.
To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed. "And upbraided them with their unbelief." "Vet do not Upbraid us our distress."
2.
To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide. "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done." "How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!"
3.
To treat with contempt. (Obs.)
4.
To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; with to before the person. (Obs.)
Synonyms: To reproach; blame; censure; condemn.



Upbraid  v. i.  To utter upbraidings.






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"Upbraid" Quotes from Famous Books



... room; for I see you do not like the subject I am upon: let nothing provoke you to fall upon an imperfection he cannot help; for, if he has a resenting spirit, he will think your aversion as immovable as the imperfection with which you upbraid him. But above all, dear Jenny, be careful of one thing, and you will be something more than woman; that is, a levity you are almost all guilty of, which is, to take a pleasure in your power to give pain. It is even in ...
— Isaac Bickerstaff • Richard Steele

... through Connecticut, preaching as he went, and devoted the rest of the year to itinerating through the other colonies. Already his popularity had been too much for him, and he frequently took it upon himself to upbraid, in no measured terms, the settled ministry for lack of earnestness in their calling and lack of Christian character. This visit of Whitefield was followed by one from the Rev. Gilbert Tennant, who arrived in Boston in December, ...
— The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut • M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.

... her looks with cool neglect, Or cross her walk with slight respect (For so is falsehood best repaid), Whence do your cheeks indignant glow? Why is your struggling tongue so slow? What means that darkness on your brow, As if with all her broken vow You meant the fair apostate to upbraid? ...
— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside

... things were done the South continued violently to upbraid the Abolitionists of the North as the cause of all their troubles, and the ladies of South Carolina showered presents and caresses on the brutal assailant of Mr. Sumner. In 1856 the North endeavoured to elect a President who ...
— Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky • Jacob D. Green

... Germany, not all the Huns were Hunnish. Some there were who cursed Lettow and the war in speaking to the prisoners, and, in private talks, professed their tiredness of the whole beastly campaign. But these, our men noticed, were ever the quickest to "strafe," always the first to rail and upbraid and strike when ...
— Sketches of the East Africa Campaign • Robert Valentine Dolbey


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