Remonstrance vs Rebuke - What's the difference?
remonstrance | rebuke |
A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.
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A harsh criticism.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
To criticise harshly; to reprove.
As nouns the difference between remonstrance and rebuke
is that remonstrance is a remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection while rebuke is a harsh criticism.As a verb rebuke is
to criticise harshly; to reprove.remonstrance
English
Noun
(en noun)- Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance .
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
China: A new postmortem on Tiananmen," , 15 March:
- In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.
rebuke
English
Noun
(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.