Both Uses
rebuke
in
Sweet Far Thing
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- Her stiff skirts whisk-whisk across the floor as if to rebuke it for lying there.†
Chpt 1rebuke = criticize severely; or such criticism
- "Creostus," Philon says, rebuking the centaur and offering him the pipe.†
Chpt 2 *rebuking = criticizing severely
Definitions:
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(1)
(rebuke) criticize severely; or such criticism
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In archaic literature, you may see rebuke used in a sense of "to check" or "repress."