Both Uses of
rebuke
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
- But, I beseech you, If't be your pleasure and most wise consent,—As partly I find it is,—that your fair daughter, At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night, Transported with no worse nor better guard But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor,—If this be known to you, and your allowance, We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; But if you know not this, my manners tell me We have your wrong rebuke.†
Scene 1.1rebuke = criticize severely; or such criticism
- If I once stir, Or do but lift this arm, the best of you Shall sink in my rebuke.†
Scene 2.3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(rebuke) criticize severely; or such criticism
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In archaic literature, you may see rebuke used in a sense of "to check" or "repress."