Translation
to reproach, to rebuke, to tell off
Examples
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The father rebuked his son.
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She reproached me for my silence.
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Nobody has the right to reproach you.
severe, .
He looked at me sternly, but did not reproach me.
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I reproach myself for that mistake.
takes the person as its direct object and the grounds with pro: pro . You will also meet the older pattern where the thing reproached is the object and the person takes , as in mensogon, which is perfectly good Esperanto and common in the classics. The noun is riproĉo, and senriproĉa means beyond reproach. It sits between , which is only an emotion, and , which is an actual penalty: is words, delivered with disapproval.
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