To express disapproval.
To criticise, rebuke, or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
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.
From Middle English repreven, reproven, from Anglo-Norman reprover, Middle French reprouver, from Latin reprobāre. Doublet of reprobate.
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