rebuke
verb (used with object)
to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.
rebuker
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a word derived from
rebuke.
Example Sentences
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This lover of liberty, this gentle rebuker of kings, was of the free-thinkers, at least in the sympathy of political thought.
From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson
Majestical rebuker of the waste of lives, rebuker of a country which invites all lives into it and wastes lives most ruthlessly—lives which it stands there to shelter and to foster and to save.
From A Cathedral Singer by James Lane Allen
They bolt me to the billiard-room, Where chaps are playing five-bob snooker; They see me dodging from the doom, They heed no threats and no rebuker; "We've got thee now," they say, "ba goom!"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 by Various
Who made thee a preacher of righteousness, a rebuker of sin, thou little stray lamb of the Savior's fold?
From Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 by Mrs. A. G. Whittelsey
The faithful rebuker, the merciful inflicter of pain, is the truest friend of the wrongdoer.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren
