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Definition
to reject another's help, suggestion, or approach — typically rudely
or in a battle or fight: to drive back
or in a battle or fight: to drive back
- I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question, but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction, he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow.Chapter 15 (24% in)
- All eyes met her with a glance of eager curiosity, and she met all eyes with one of rebuff and coldness; she looked neither flurried nor merry: she walked stiffly to her seat, and took it in silence.Chapter 18 (88% in)
- It was vain to try to read with such an inscrutable fixture before me; nor could I, in impatience, consent to be dumb; he might rebuff me if he liked, but talk I would.Chapter 33 (15% in)
There are no more uses of "rebuff" in Jane Eyre.
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