LekhoriLekhoriA severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.
To reprove in a formal or official way.
1983. Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62. He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope:
From French réprimande, from réprimer (“to repress”).
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