Admonition vs Rebuke - What's the difference?
admonition | rebuke |
Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning.
* {{quote-book, title=, author=Plato, translator=Benjamin Jowett, year=1892
, passage=But modesty cannot be implanted by admonition only—the elders must set the example.}}
A harsh criticism.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
To criticise harshly; to reprove.
As nouns the difference between admonition and rebuke
is that admonition is gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning while rebuke is a harsh criticism.As a verb rebuke is
to criticise harshly; to reprove.admonition
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(en noun)Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.