UPBRAID

Upbraid

verb

Present third person singular: she/he upbraids.

Indicative past, past participle: upbraided

Present participle: upbraiding.

Etymology: from Old English upbreiden, from AS upbregdan, from up (= up) + bregdan (= to draw, twist, weave).

Other English vocables derived from the verb upbraid: upbraided, upbraider, upbraiding, upbraidingly

Transitively:

1. Definition: to adduce, cite or mention (something) as a cause for censure.

Postdefinition: it is now obsolete and it was construed with the prepositions to or against before the person upbraided.

2. To signify to (an animated being) one’s disapproval of his (her) having done or forborne something, or of his (her) quality.

Synonyms: to reproach, reprove, censure, carp at, scold, chide, rebuke, reprimand, berate, taunt, twit, snub

Antonyms: praise, laud, compliment, eulogize, extol, celebrate,

It may be approximately translated by rimproverare, in Italian; reprochar, in Spanish; reprocher, in French.

She is pleased to upbraid me as a person little experienced in the world: I freely own it.

David Hume (The History of England)

[…] when you know the true reason of my leaving you to-night I think you will pity rather than upbraid me.

Henry Fielding (Amelia)

Ned stood at the window a little while longer, listening. He heard far away the faint rattle of a saber, probably some officer of S[…] Anna who was going to a place outside a lattice, the sharp cry of a Mexican upbraiding his lazy mule, and the distant note of a woman singing an old Spanish song.

Joseph A. Altsheler (The Texan Star)

[…] she upbraided him and declared if he ever referred again to the subject she would renounce him as her son and cast him off for ever.

Tales from Dickens, by Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives

[…] as he was a surly kind of fellow, so she contented herself with frequently upbraiding him by disadvantageous comparisons with her first husband, whose praise she had eternally in her mouth.

Henry Fielding (The History of Tom Jones)

***Absolutely:

She also showed that she knew how to distribute both rewards and punishments with impartiality; that she knew when to soothe, and when to upbraid; that she could dissemble submission, but preserve her prerogatives. Oliver Goldsmith (The History of England)

She secluded herself from all visitors, and, sometimes, remained in her apartment, for weeks together, refusing to speak to every person, except her favourite female attendant, writing scraps of letters, reading, again and again, those she had received from the Marquis, weeping over his picture, and speaking to it, for many hours, upbraiding, reproaching and caressing it alternately.

Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho)

She knew all this but did not upbraid.

Edgar Allan Poe

***With the prepositions for or with, before a nour or a gerund designative of the cause of the disapproval:

She upbraided me for not going to see her, and wondered what woman had supplanted her.

Walter (My Secret Life)

Tossing and pitching on my bed, I upbraided myself for having returned to Oakville, where any interference with our plans could possibly develop.

Andy Adams (A Texas Matchmaker)

She smelled something burning then, and bolted for the kitchen, where her sharp, rather nasal voice was heard upbraiding Minnie for some neglect.

B. M. Bower (Lonesome Land)

Whenever he flogged the men, which he was constantly doing, he never failed to upbraid them with ingratitude, and the indulgences which they received from him.

Captain Frederick Marryat (Frank Mildmay)

She almost flew into his arms, upbraided him for being so long away, for not having written to her.

Frederick Marryat (Snarleyyow)

He upbraided Hugh, both with disloyalty and ingratitude; but told the rest, that he considered them as men deluded and misinformed.

Samuel Johnson (A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland)

This bloody and treacherous tyrant upbraids the marquis and others, with their gallantries and intrigues as the most terrible enormities.

David Hume (The History of England)

I upbraided Miss Grant with her cruelty.

Robert Louis Stevenson (Catriona)

There were not, perhaps, many more unhappy persons than poor Partridge. He had lost the best part of his income by the evidence of his wife, and yet was daily upbraided by her for having, among other things, been the occasion of depriving her of that benefit.

Henry Fielding (The History of Tom Jones)

When we were alone together, he gently upbraided me with having neglected to write to him during so long a time.

Henry Fielding (The History of Tom Jones)

I am sure your ladyship will not upbraid me with neglect of duty, when I only waited for orders.

Henry Fielding (The History of Tom Jones)

She upbraided herself for the sentiment, but could not overcome or lessen it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

***With the preposition on, before a nour or a gerund designative of the cause of the disapproval (unusual construction):

Do not thou upbraid me on my weak fits—on my contradictory purposes--on my irresolution--and all will be well. Samuel Richardson (Clarissa)

***With the preposition of, before the cause of the disapproval (this construction is now obsolete, except where the object of the preposition is a proposition introduced by that, in which case the preposition of is omitted):

This did I endure for her; and now the self-willed girl upbraids me that I did not leave her to perish.

Walter Scott (Ivanhoe)

One young Amazon ran for a considerable distance beside us, raised her finger in a menacing manner, and upbraided us that we Franks did not openly and vigorously side with them.

Richard Lepsius (Letters from Egypt…)

[…] she met Captain Temple, who, less shy, came to her side eagerly, complaining and upbraiding her that she had deserted him.

Margaret Oliphant (Within the Precincts)

***It may be used reflexively:

[I] upbraided myself that I had not warned Jo of it long ago.

Edgar Watson Howe (The Story of a Country Town)

"True; but had I been firmer in refusal, I might not so well have known it; I might then have upbraided myself with supposing that my compliance would have rescued him."

FRANCES BURNEY (Cecilia)

She was very angry. She again called me perverse: she upbraided me with regarding only my own prepossessions, and respecting not either her peace of mind or my own duty […]

Samuel Richardson (Clarissa)

The evening before the battle, Piercy sent a manifesto to Henry, in which he renounced his allegiance, set that prince at defiance, and in the name of his father and uncle, as well as his own, enumerated all the grievances, of which, he pretended, the nation had reason to complain. He upbraided him with the perjury, of which he had been guilty […]

David Hume (The History of England)