Definition of Rebuke

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Rebuke

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.

A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.

Check; rebuff.

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Rebuke Quotations

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Aeschylus

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sydney J. Harris

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
William Feather

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
Angelina Grimke

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
Booth Tarkington

Rebuke Translations

rebuke in Danish is dadle
rebuke in Dutch is afkeuren, wraken, verwerpen
rebuke in Finnish is moittia
rebuke in French is la critique, reprocher, semonce, gronder
rebuke in German is Tadel
rebuke in Latin is insequor, increpo
rebuke in Norwegian is dadle
rebuke in Spanish is reprimenda, reprension

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