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Definition of Rebukingly
1. Adverb. In the manner of someone delivering a rebuke.
Definition of Rebukingly
1. adv. By way of rebuke.
Definition of Rebukingly
1. Adverb. In a rebuking manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rebukingly
Literary usage of Rebukingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outcast of the Family; Or, A Battle of Love and Pride: A Novel by Charles Garvice (1894)
""You're right down spoiling that child," said Mrs, Fletcher, rebukingly, but
with & mother's smile. " There'll be no holding her when you've gone up to the ..."
2. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1885)
"The judge has to pass sentence in accordance with the law, and hence has, in such
a case, to be content rebukingly to say that such a grievous wrong ..."
3. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"HEIN [rebukingly]. Then whom are you asking? POLLINGER. The missus!—Master said
I was to ask the missus, an" [blinking leftward at MARIE] the missus told me ..."
4. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1921)
"I gives it to 'em an' I gits de money. [With a grin.'] De long green, dat's me
every time! [Then rebukingly. ] But you ain't got no kick agin me, Smithers. ..."
5. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"HEIN [rebukingly]. Then whom are you asking? POLLINGER. The missus!—Master said
I was to ask the missus, an' [blinking leftward at MARIE] the missus told me ..."
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