Crossword clues for rebuking
rebuking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rebuke \Re*buke"\ (r[-e]*b[=u]k"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rebuked (r[-e]*b[=u]kt"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rebuking.] [OF. rebouquier to dull, blunt, F. reboucher; perhaps fr. pref. re- re- + bouche mouth, OF. also bouque, L. bucca cheek; if so, the original sense was, to stop the mouth of; hence, to stop, obstruct.] 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.
--Dryden.
Syn: To reprove; chide; check; chasten; restrain; silence. See Reprove.
Wiktionary
n. The act of giving a rebuke. vb. (present participle of rebuke English)
Usage examples of "rebuking".
Anyone coming upon them suddenly would not have known that the Dean had been rebuking and disciplining his organist.
I spoke to him the whole time, rebuking him and taunting him at first, but before long I was pleading with him.
But constrained by his mother’s rebuking glance, the Prince rode at the Narcheska’s left side.
It suddenly seemed a more difficult decision than when I had been rebuking the Fool for not telling.
Jaxom said in a rebuking hiss that startled his friend into wide-eyed silence.
An instant later she was thanking the same Sa she had been rebuking, for a space had opened up on the tax docks, and the Vivacia was being edged into place there.
Despite the age and grief in her voice, or perhaps because of it, Ronica Vestrit sounded as if she were a mother rebuking two unruly children.
I could not see her without feeling how she longed to find him, and then rebuking myself for thinking of him.
He picked up the first of the editorial pages, and ran his eye quickly over it: a leader complaining of high taxation, and two subsidiary editorials, one sharply rebuking a South American republic for some wickedness connected with coffee and another explaining that the great cause of traffic accidents was not drunkenness or mechanical defects in cars, but elementary bad manners on the part of drivers.
They existed with them--the old recollections with the new emotions--the stern rebukings of the warrior's nature with the anxious forebodings of the lover's heart.