Verb
To convince.
To disprove; to refute.
To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.
To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. William Wordsworth
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly. Leonardo da Vinci
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. François de La Rochefoucauld
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. Isaac Barrow
If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have. James Burgh
Neither reprove nor flatter thy wife, where any one heareth or seeth it. Dutch Proverb