upbraid
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[edit] Etymology
Old English upbreiden, from upp (“up”) + bregdan (“to draw, twist, weave; the kindred”); Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).
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[edit] Noun
upbraid (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The act of reproaching; contumely.
- Edmund Spenser (Can we date this quote?),
- Foul upbraid.
- Edmund Spenser (Can we date this quote?),
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The act of reproaching
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[edit] Verb
upbraid (third-person singular simple present upbraids, present participle upbraiding, simple past and past participle upbraided)
- To criticize severely.
- (archaic) 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.
- Mark 16:14,
- And upbraided them with their unbelief.
- Mark 16:14,
- To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.
- Matthew 11:20,
- Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.
- Sir P. Sidney (Can we date this quote?),
- How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
- Matthew 11:20,
- (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
- (obsolete) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person.
- (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.