exprobrative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
exprobrate + -ive
Adjective[edit]
exprobrative (comparative more exprobrative, superlative most exprobrative)
- (obsolete) Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful.
- 1613, Anthony Sherley, Sir Anthony Sherley: his Relation of his Travels into Persia:
- All benefites loosing much of their splendor […] that doe beare with them an exprobrative terme of necessitie.