adv. [f. prec.] In an upbraiding manner; with reproach or reproof.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., R iij. Any man … that is vpbraidingly dyscontent.
1653. R. Sanders, Physiogn., 257. Neither should we upbraidingly be accused for our negligence.
1679. Prance, Addit. Narr. Pop. Plot, 9. Upbraidingly telling him, That he should be a Prisoner there.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1768), IV. 173. Afraid, as the women upbraidingly tell me, that I should find it there.
1825. Scott, Talism., viii. ‘I never knew thee before hesitate for fear of life,’ said Richard upbraidingly.
1861. Meredith, Evan Harrington, III. ix. 147. Its absence was upbraidingly mentioned.
