rebuking

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English

Verb

rebuking

  1. present participle and gerund of rebuke

Noun

rebuking (plural rebukings)

  1. The act of giving a rebuke.
    • 1844, William Bingham Tappan, The Daughter of the Isles, and Other Poems, page 193:
      But the more the rebukings of God met thine ear, / Thou, freed from the terror, didst love Him the more; / And what in the vile only kindles up fear, / Led thee, in thy holiness, Him to adore.