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Rebuke   /ribjˈuk/  /rɪbjˈuk/   Listen
noun
Rebuke  n.  
1.
A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment. "For thy sake I have suffered rebuke." "Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?"
2.
Check; rebuff. (Obs.)
To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.



verb
Rebuke  v. t.  (past & past part. rebuked; pres. part. rebuking)  To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish. "The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered, Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared."
Synonyms: To reprove; chide; check; chasten; restrain; silence. See Reprove.






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"Rebuke" Quotes from Famous Books



... precedent in that decorous body. Far different from this was the tone in which Lord Thurlow, while Lord-Chancellor, asserted his independence and vindicated his title to respect in his memorable rebuke addressed to the Duke of Grafton. If the testimony of English travellers in this country is to be believed, the legislative assemblies of our own land have hitherto enjoyed the unenviable monopoly ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, August, 1863, No. 70 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various

... not answered my question, Miss Whitney," was Penfield's quick retort, and Kathleen flushed under the rebuke. ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... rebuke to those who still cherished dreams of a world dominated by one nation. For the peace he outlined was not that of a victorious Emperor, it was not the peace of Caesar. It was in behalf of all the world, and it was a peace of ...
— World's War Events, Vol. II • Various

... selected instruments; all strongly prejudiced at the outset against the cause and the men of the Free-State Party; and yet, each one of them, as soon as he has fairly entered the field of his operations, offering such loud rebuke of the plans and projects of his own party as to provoke his speedy removal!—no strength of party attachment, no pliability of conscience, no hope of future favor, no dread of instant punishment, being sufficient to prevent him from turning against his own masters and colleagues! Even the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various

... kindness, affected a sort of solitary grandeur, deported themselves with the conscious swagger of genius, read Tooke's Pantheon, and prated of the Heathen gods. This was very harmless and innocent pastime; tiresome, to be sure, yet laughable withal; nor did it call for any further rebuke than an occasional tap upon the cranium of some blockhead who forsook his legitimate sphere, thrust himself in your way, and became unsufferably blatant. Now the spirit of the times has changed. The literary ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various


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