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  • verb Present participle of rebuke.

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Examples

  • 'He asked us if we could play at cricket -- and he asked the pony's name,' said Harold, 'if that's what you call rebuking us!'

    Friarswood Post Office Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Fearful of the alarm my intrusion might occasion, I hastily join'd and retreated with my old friend, who was not backward in rebuking me. but the silver soon allayed both his fear and anger.

    Sporting Sketches 2002

  • He concludes with the assurance that in rebuking her, he seeks not his own pleasure or her displeasure, but rather her moral reformation: "I will tell you truths while I can, satisfied with proving myself your friend by very faithful counsel, and trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now" (III. vii, 340).

    Leaving Box Hill: Emma and Theatricality 2000

  • Now in rebuking this, I am not asking for sympathy for the negroes, nor intimating what charity and good will ought to lead us to do in their behalf; but I make an appeal to your moral sense, to what

    The Martyr to Liberty 1865

  • To be very tender in rebuking elders -- elders in age, elders by office.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • He made a guttural comment in Korean, rebuking me for my rudeness.

    The Commander Patrick A. Davis 2002

  • He made a guttural comment in Korean, rebuking me for my rudeness.

    The Commander Patrick A. Davis 2002

  • No, sorry, Please cite the chapter and verse where Jesus is ever described as rebuking anyone for being "religious."

    About.com Agnosticism / Atheism 2009

  • However, I keep them in a constant and wholesome contempt of their own abilities, and never let them despise or criticize anyone unfavourably; not by 'rebuking' it, but by indicating a point of view — and one can always find one — in which the person under fire is infinitely their superior.

    Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • 'rebuking' them, the organization that says Burnahm "violated its professional code of ethics".

    The Common Ills 2009

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