Pronounced: WEH-luh-rih-zuhm, noun
Notes: Another word that I don’t know
Yesterday’s word
The word reprehend means “to disapprove or to reprimand”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1300s
Background / Comments
The reason you might guess at the meaning of this word is that it is the verb form of the better known adjective form (“reprehensible”). Our word came from the Latin word reprehendere (to hold back; to censure), which is made up of re- (intensive) and prehendere (to seize).
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