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Rebuff   /rɪbˈəf/  /ribˈəf/   Listen
noun
Rebuff  n.  
1.
Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. "The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud."
2.
Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.


verb
Rebuff  v. t.  (past & past part. rebuffed; pres. part. rebuffing)  To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.





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"Rebuff" Quotes from Famous Books



... on which neither Jan Jansen Alpendam nor Wilhelmus Kieft had made any calculation. Finding himself, therefore, totally unprepared to answer so terrible a rebuff with suitable hostility, the admiral concluded his wisest course would be to return home and report progress. He accordingly steered his course back to New Amsterdam, where he arrived safe, having accomplished this hazardous enterprise at small expense of treasure, and ...
— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving
... suppose that you were in my house to make yourself useful to me," Mrs. Salisbury said coldly. She used a tone of quiet dignity; but she knew that she had had the worst of the encounter. She was really a little dazed by the firmness of the rebuff. ...
— The Treasure • Kathleen Norris
... whom I could offer my intimacy in many an impassioned revery. I do not think T. B. Macaulay would really have liked it; I dare say he would not have valued the friendship of the sort of a youth I was, but in the conditions he was helpless, and I poured out my love upon him without a rebuff. Of course I reformed my prose style, which had been carefully modelled upon that of Goldsmith and Irving, and began to write in the manner of Macaulay, in short, quick sentences, and with the prevalent use of brief ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... emperors bide their times' rebuff I would not be a king—enough Of woe it is to love; The paths of power are steep and rough, And ...
— The Certain Hour • James Branch Cabell
... her hand, but one glimpse of his dour, preoccupied face made her change her mind. Still, it was so incurably her habit to be trusting and friendly that on the doorstep she turned to shed on him her candid smile—only to find the door already closed. The rebuff was like a cold shower; it made her catch her breath. Had she made a bad impression on the man? Did he consider her rather confiding simplicity unbusinesslike? She resolved hastily to cultivate a ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell


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