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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Upbraid

The Bible

Bible Usage:

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  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Upbraid

UPBRA'ID, verb transitive

1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast in the teeth; followed by with or for, before the thing imputed; as, to upbraid a man for his folly or his intemperance.

Yet do not upbraid us with our distress.

He upbraided them with their unbelief. Matthew 16:14.

[The use of to and of, after upbraid as to upbraid a man of his gain by iniquity, to upbraid to a man his evil practices, has been long discontinued.]

2. To reproach; to chide.

God who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. James 1:5.

3. To reprove with severity.

Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done - Matthew 11:20.

4. To bring reproach on.

How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!

5. To treat with contempt. obsolete


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Upbraided

UPBRA'IDED, participle passive Charged with something wrong or disgraceful; reproached; reproved.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Upbraider

UPBRA'IDER, noun One who upbraids or reproves.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Upbraiding

UPBRA'IDING, participle present tense Accusing; casting in the teeth; reproaching; reproving.

UPBRA'IDING, noun

1. A charging with something wrong or disgraceful; the act of reproaching or reproving.

I have too long borne your blunt upbraidings.

2. The reproaches or accusations of conscience.