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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



... This rebuke did not deter Talleyrand (who had settled his terms with Schimmelpenninck) from continuing to point out the advantage which France would derive from this nomination. "Because no man could easier be directed when in office, and no man easier turned out of office ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... there to say? I accepted his rebuke, and, bidding the pair farewell, set off alone upon ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... on the part of the plebeians, as the expression of a loyalty to kingship which centuries had made instinctive in them. Berkeley, putting himself in line with the predominant feeling, summoned the assembly in the name of the king, thus announcing without rebuke the termination of the era of self-government. The members who were elected were mostly royalists. They met in 1661. It was found that the Navigation Acts, which had been a dead letter ever since their passage, ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
... of Dacre's execution, the third time the President had sought to make his prisoner betray the King, had well-nigh driven Bagshaw from his office. It was Richard Lincoln who had saved the government that day, by his stern rebuke to the President; the latter liked him ...
— The King's Men - A Tale of To-morrow • Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T.
... she was agreeably surprised to find the sobering effect which her rebuke seemed to have upon her husband's native tenants. She knew her influence over them, especially over the old native families, but in all her dealings and close association with them she could not remember an impromptu ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje


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