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- noun Plural form of
rebuker .
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Examples
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But he had been rebuked by the admirers of the Cobblers, and now he turns upon his rebukers with characteristic vigour.
Sydney Smith Rusell, George W E 1904
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Their moral life, as well as their intellectual, was under the careful training of picked men, and they stand as monuments of grace and power and purity among their people, and as constant rebukers to the villifyers of their race.
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The priests of Bethel, who were the creatures of Jeroboam, were not likely to be his or his successors rebukers.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Ah, brethren! we should be our own rebukers in this matter, and the heroism of the world should put to shame the cowardice and the selfishness of the Church.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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We love not the rebukers of our sins, or the opposers of our pleasures.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852
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Be ye therefore certified (said he, by this his letter to his friends) that our rebukes, which are laid upon us, redound to the shame and harm of the rebukers.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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