What's the difference between reprive and reprove?
Reprive
Definition:
(v. t.) To take back or away.
(v. t.) To reprieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) The legal charity Reprive said that Yunus Rahmatullah had been freed from the prison at Bagram, north of Kabul, and taken to his native Pakistan .
Reprove
Definition:
(v. t.) To convince.
(v. t.) To disprove; to refute.
(v. t.) To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.
(v. t.) To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Ministry is reproved for not following the Norwegian Parliament's legislative guidelines regarding the assurance of personal freedom of conscience for medical personnel to refuse to assist in the performance of abortions for religious, ethical, or moral reasons.
(2) Their husbands were warned not to go to prostitutes, carriers of STDs; yet the prostitutes were reproved, not the men.
(3) As trusts plunge deeper into debt, they have also been reproved by their regulator for the rising pay bill Ask her about her EU nurses and the way she brims with extravagant praise betrays her anxiety following the referendum: “They make a huge contribution with very strong skills that lift the standard of our own.
(4) Yet, as trusts plunge deeper into debt, they have also been reproved by their regulator, NHS Improvement, for the rising pay bill.
(5) I recall him reproving me when I disparaged one of his ultra-Blairite cabinet colleagues.
(6) The physician was officially reproved by the Aachen government for having trespassed his authority in obtaining the twin monster.