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Definition
criticize severely; or such criticism
- The struggles and wrangles of the lads for her hand in a jig were an amusement to her—no more; and when they became fierce she rebuked them.1 — The Maiden (17% in)
- Her rebuke and her mood seemed to fill the whole room, and to impart a cowed look to the furniture, and candle, and children playing about, and to her mother's face.1 — The Maiden (22% in)
There are no more uses of "rebuke" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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