Reproof

It was then that my father's reproof had come home to me.

It was then that my fathers reproof had come home to me.

"Your humility, Mr. Bingley," said Elizabeth, "must disarm reproof."

He who loves instruction loves knowledge, but whoever hates reproof is an ignoramus.

A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but an unruly one does not listen to reproof.

You could not give me a greater reproof for the mistake I fell into. It was all my doing, I know. I have not forgotten it, I assure you.

On at least one such occasion, in L.N.E.R. days, I discovered later that what I had written was precisely what the authorities wanted to be said, though it would have been highly impolitic for my chief to have given me this information rather than the formal reproof that I received!

We need to reproof the book before publication.