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Scorning vs Rebuke - What's the difference?

scorning | rebuke |

As verbs the difference between scorning and rebuke

is that scorning is while rebuke is to criticise harshly; to reprove.

As nouns the difference between scorning and rebuke

is that scorning is the act of one who scorns while rebuke is a harsh criticism.

scorning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who scorns.
  • * (Thomas Hardy)
    • But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.

    rebuke

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A harsh criticism.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, 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.

    Verb

    (rebuk)
  • To criticise harshly; to reprove.

    • Synonyms

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