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Definition of Rebuking
1. rebuke [v] - See also: rebuke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rebuking
Literary usage of Rebuking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"(June 11, 1460), reproaching him for his participation in an indescribable orgy
at Sienna, and rebuking him for having no thought but pleasure. ..."
2. God Against Slavery: And the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It, as by George Barrell Cheever (1857)
"... IN RESISTING* AND rebuking OPPRESSION—THE WORD OF GOD OUR ONLY SAFE GUIDE.
^ BUT here again I hear the stale, accustomed outcry of political preaching; ..."
3. Christian Missions and Social Progress: A Sociological Study of Foreign Missions by James Shepard Dennis (1899)
"... and this, of course, generates discontent and unhappiness.2 Christian customs
do away with these objectionable features. where rebuking the bar- . ..."
4. Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux: Being the Narrative of an by Charles Francis Hall (1865)
"... rebuking Swearers. For several days now our life was of a very monotonous
description, except so far as varied by the visits of Esquimaux, ..."
5. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"Effect of rebuking counsel. If the court promptly rebukes the prosecuting counsel
for making improper statements, and the latter thereupon ceases to make ..."
6. Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Sen., Governor of Connecticut by Isaac William Stuart (1859)
"The officers continue their complaints Another letter from Trumbull, rebuking
the malcontents, and again vindicating Connecticut Great dearth of money ..."
7. Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Sen., Governor of Connecticut by Isaac William Stuart (1859)
"Another letter from Trumbull, rebuking the malcontents, and again vindicating
Connecticut. Great dearth of money. Trumbull, in conformity with instructions ..."
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