Meanings
nounincrepation (plural increpations)
plural increpations
- obsoleteA rebuke or reproof.
first the admonitions , fraternal or paternal , of his fellow Christians , or of the governors of the Church , then more public reprehensions and increpations
1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinincrepatio
- Englishincrepation
Latin increpatio.
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