upbraiding

upbraiding

1. present participle and gerund of upbraid

upbraiding (comparative more upbraiding, superlative most upbraiding)

1. Reproachful; chiding; censorious.

• upbraidingly

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

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