Obs. Forms: α. 3 upbreid, -bræid, 4 -breyd(e, 4–5 -breide; 3– upbraid (5 Sc. upbrad), 4–6 upbraide, 5–7 upbrayde (6 -brayed). β. 4 vbbreide, obbrayd, 6 obbraid, obrayd, 7 ubbrayd. [L. UP- 2 + BRAID sb. 1. Cf. the verb, also UMBRAID sb. and UPBRUD.]
1. With a and pl. A reproach or reproof.
α. a. 1200. Vices & Virtues, 41. [Job was assailed] mid maniȝe euele upbreides … of his auene frienden.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 5673. Moyses for þis vp-braid Was stonand in his hert.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 219. In ȝow a faute men fynde, & is an ille vpbraid, þat ȝe ere nere blynde.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., II. xvi. 247. Alle the vpbreidis and alle the reproues which Holi Writ ȝeueth to the worschipers of tho ymagis.
1482. Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 106. Vexyd with tormentys and vpbraydys of seche wekyd folke.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. 1 Tim. 11. Not onely any naughtye faulte but also any false feyned vpbrayed.
1575. Brieff Disc. Troub. Franckford (1846), 84. They coulde haue nothing with owte bytter upbraids.
1641. Vind. Smectymnuus, 9. It is no envious upbraid to parallell ours with the former Bishops.
1677. trans. Groeneveldt’s Treat. Stone, 61. Moved at length by the upbraids of the Parents,… he made incision in the groin.
β. 1325. Metr. Hom., in Herrig’s Archiv, LVII. 243/1. Of fendes hedde I mony vbbreide.
1575. Laneham, Lett. (1907), 17. With spitefull obrayds and vncharitabl chaffings alweiz they freat.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 575. Which … you your selues without the ub-brayd of a lie by your own conscience, cannot deny.
2. Without article: Reproach, reproof; evil speaking.
α. c. 1205. Lay., 26036. Þa nolde Arður on slepen na wiht hine areppen, leste he an uferre daȝe up-bræid iherde.
c. 1275. in Hist. Holy Rood-tree, etc., 78. Skoarn, upbraid, and schome speche.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 7996. Bytwyxt to þer a stryf þey herde, Of grete vpbreide ilk oþer onswerde.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 1800. Lettis neuire it broȝt be on brade for vpbraide of schame.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 395. As it is showed afore, beware of vpbrayde.
1591. Spenser, M. Hubberd, 2. For disdaine of sinfull worlds vpbraide. Ibid. (1596), F. Q., IV. ix. 24. Through lewd vpbraid Of Ate and Duessa they fell out.
β. c. 1325. Spec. Gy Warw., 537. Ȝif þi neiheboure misdoþ þe,… Or in dede, or in vbbreid.
a. 1400. New Test. (Paues), Heb. xi. 26. Trowynge þe obbrayd of Crist grettour rychesse þan þe tresour of Egypcyenes.
1548. Patten, Exped. Scotl., Pref. b iv b. So maye the subiect without obbraid of benefites, recount the bounty of hys Princes larges.
