All 3 Uses of
rebuke
in
The Prince and The Pauper
- If that I could but clothe me in raiment like to thine, and strip my feet, and revel in the mud once, just once, with none to rebuke me or forbid, meseemeth I could forego the crown!†
Chpt 3 *rebuke = criticize severely; or such criticism
- And even if one granted it were not a jest, it is a fault so small that e'en the grimmest penalty it could call forth would be but a rebuke and warning from the judge's lips.†
Chpt 24
- Under this rebuke, his Grace the Duke of Somerset retired a little from the front for the moment.†
Chpt 32
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."