Definition of "upbraid"

upbraid

/ˌʌpˈbɹeɪd/

verb
third-person singular simple present upbraids, present participle upbraiding, simple past and past participle upbraided
1. (transitive) To criticize severely.
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  How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
  a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912,
  Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Matthew 11:20
  Dalio had no qualms about upbraiding a junior employee in front of me and dozens of his colleagues.
  2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker‎
2. (transitive, archaic, followed by with or for, and formerly of before the object) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
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  Yet do not upbraid us our distress.
  c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]
  Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Mark 16:14
3. (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
  Quotations
  There also was that mighty monarch laid, Low under all, yet above all in pride; That name of native fire did foul upbraid, And would, as Ammon's son, be magnify'd.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
4. (obsolete, followed by "to" before the object) To object or urge as a matter of reproach
  Quotations
  Those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals when raised: for it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, and pointeth at them.
  1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Envy”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret
5. (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
6. (UK dialectal, Northern England, archaic) To vomit; retch.
noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete) The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.
  Quotations
  He was ymet; who with uncomely ShameGan him salute, and foul upbraid with faulty Blame.
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

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