upbraiding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of upbraid

comparative more upbraiding · superlative most upbraiding

1. Reproachful; chiding; censorious.

plural upbraidings

1. An instance of severe criticism or rebuke.

   I wish to bring comfort and avoid upbraidings: for your own conscience will reproach you more than the voice of a preacher.

   1798, Elizabeth Inchbald, Lovers' Vows, Act IV, Scene I

2. obsoleteAn instance of vomiting

   The seed wasteth and consumeth winde, and is good against belchings and upbraidings of the stomach, alaieth gripings of the belly, provoketh urine gently, maketh abundance of milke, and stirreth up bodily lust: it staieth the laske, and also the white flux in women

   1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Anise”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 880