repreve

Middle English

Noun

repreve

1. reproof
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 15-16:

     [...] ‘Besyde a welle Iesus, god and man,
     Spak in repreve of the Samaritan:’ [...]

     [...] ‘Beside a well, Jesus, God and man,
     Spoke in reproof of the Samaritan:’ [...]