UPBRAIDING • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Upbraiding

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

verb

Upbraid v. i. (past & past part. upbraided; pres. part. upbraiding)

To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed. "And upbraided them with their unbelief." "Vet do not Upbraid us our distress."

To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide. "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done." "How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!"

To treat with contempt. (Obs.)

To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; with to before the person. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To reproach; blame; censure; condemn.

Upbraid v. i. To utter upbraidings.

See images of 'Upbraiding'

Etymology of 'Upbraiding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Upbraiding" Quotes from Famous Books

... that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable temper, or the vexations of her absurd, contradictory, exacting orders—even then I restrained myself: I eschewed upbraiding, I curtailed remonstrance; I tried to devour my repentance and disgust in secret; I repressed the ...

— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte

... the most visibly impatient. The hasty bustling of her very quietest steps gave such torture to Frederick, as to excuse the upbraiding eyes which he turned on his poor perplexed mother whenever she entered the room; and her fresh arrangements and orders always created a disturbance, which created such positive injury, that it was the aim of the whole family to prevent her ...

— Henrietta's Wish • Charlotte M. Yonge

... my people, I dreaded to meet them. I felt that my father would believe my story, but I was afraid of my mother's brothers, the sons of the chief. They had never had any love for me, or I much for them. Why this was so I found out one day when they were upbraiding my mother in the wigwam for marrying my father, instead of a chief of another village, to whom they had promised her. They thought I was asleep, or they would not have spoken as they did. I remember that my mother spoke up, and said that she was the daughter of a ...

— Three Boys in the Wild North Land • Egerton Ryerson Young

... this occasion he did not prepare himself for the coming conversation with much anticipation of pleasure. Whatever might be his faults he was not an inhospitable man, and he almost felt that he was sinning against hospitality in upbraiding Eleanor in his own house. Then, also, he was not quite sure that he would get the best of it. His wife had told him that he decidedly would not, and he usually gave credit to what his wife said. He was, however, so convinced of what he considered to be the impropriety of Eleanor's conduct, and ...

— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope

... powers you possess for attaining courage and greatness of heart, I can easily show you; what you have for upbraiding and accusation, it is ...

— The Golden Sayings of Epictetus • Epictetus

More quotes...