upbraidingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

upbraiding (comparative more upbraiding, superlative most upbraiding)

1. Reproachful; chiding; censorious.

派生語

• upbraidingly

名詞

upbraiding (plural upbraidings)

1. An instance of severe criticism or rebuke.
   • 1798, Elizabeth Inchbald, Lovers' Vows, Act IV, Scene I:

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

2. (obsolete) An instance of vomiting
   • 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:

     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

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “upbraiding”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.