Rebuke vs Correction - What's the difference?
rebuke | correction |
A harsh criticism.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
To criticise harshly; to reprove.
The act of correcting.
A substitution for an error or mistake.
Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
A decline in a stock market price after a large rise.
As nouns the difference between rebuke and correction
is that rebuke is a harsh criticism while correction is the act of correcting.As a verb rebuke
is to criticise harshly; to reprove.rebuke
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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.
