reprove

Etymology 1

From Middle English repreven, reproven, from Anglo-Norman reprover, Middle French reprouver, from Latin reprobāre. Doublet of reprobate.

verb

  1. (intransitive) to express disapproval.
  2. (transitive) to criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
  3. (transitive) to deny or reject (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).
    She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip. 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 856

Etymology 2

re- + prove

verb

  1. (transitive) To prove again.
    As we've just learned, as long as we live in the manifest realm, a hero's journey is never over. We are constantly having to reprove ourselves. 2012, Gary Stamper, Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior
    Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper. 2015, Matthew Zawodniak, “A Moduli Space for Rational Homotopy Types with the Same Homotopy Lie Algebra”, in arXiv

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