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Correction vs Rebuking - What's the difference?

correction | rebuking |

As nouns the difference between correction and rebuking

is that correction is the act of correcting while rebuking is the act of giving a rebuke.

As a verb rebuking is

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correction

English

Alternative forms

* correxion (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * correction centre, correction center * correction fluid * hypercorrection

    rebuking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a rebuke.
  • * 1844 , William Bingham Tappan, The Daughter of the Isles, and Other Poems (page 193)
    • But the more the rebukings of God met thine ear, / Thou, freed from the terror, didst love Him the more; / And what in the vile only kindles up fear, / Led thee, in thy holiness, Him to adore.