increpation

English

Etymology

Latin increpatio.

Noun

increpation (plural increpations)

1. (obsolete) A rebuke or reproof.
   • 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     first the admonitions , fraternal or paternal , of his fellow Christians , or of the governors of the Church , then more public reprehensions and increpations

References

• “increpation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• antiporcine