![]() Check is allied to rebuke, and given before or during action chiding is nearer to reproof, but with more of personal bitterness and less of authority. ![]() Rebuke may be given at the outset, or in the midst of an action animadversion, reflection, reprehension, reproof, always follow the act admonition is anticipatory, and meant to be preventive. Animadversion is censure of a high, authoritative, and somewhat formal kind. Reprimand is official censure formally administered by a superior to one under his command. Rebuke, literally a stopping of the mouth, is administered to a forward or hasty person reproof is administered to one intentionally or deliberately wrong both words imply authority in the reprover, and direct expression of disapproval to the face of the person rebuked or reproved. Reflection is often from mere ill feeling, and is likely to be more personal and less impartial than reprehension we often speak of unkind or unjust reflections. Reprehension is supposed to be calm and just, and with good intent it is therefore a serious matter, however mild, and is capable of great force, as expressed in the phrase severe reprehension. Comment and criticism may be favorable as well as censorious they imply no superiority or authority on the part of him who utters them nor do reflection or reprehension, which are simply turning the mind back upon what is disapproved. ![]() The same is true of admonition and animadversion. Blame, censure, and disapproval may either be felt or uttered comment, criticism, rebuke, reflection, reprehension, and reproof are always expressed.
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