Word of the Day: REPRUCE

ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-French repruce, variant of reproche (reproach)

EXAMPLE
“… Þou settest us repruse [MS depruse.] to our neȝburs, vndernimyng [Here an e follows, but is dotted out.] and scorne to hem þat ben in our cumpas. …”

From: The Earliest Complete English Prose Psalter, c1350
Preface, introduction, notes, and glossary, by Karl D. Bülbring, 1891

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