Rebuke vs Unrebuked - What's the difference?
rebuke | unrebuked |
A harsh criticism.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
To criticise harshly; to reprove.
Not rebuked.
*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Richard Garnett, title=The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales, chapter=, edition=
, passage=At length we resolved that Truth and we were not made for each other, and, having verified the accuracy of this conclusion by uttering it unrebuked in Truth's own palace, quitted the unblest spot with all possible expedition. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Louis Joseph Vance, title=Alias The Lone Wolf, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But Eve might: it was "done"; even in those circles of hidebound conservatism, the society of the Faubourg St. Germain, ladies of this day smoked unrebuked . }}
As a noun rebuke
is a harsh criticism.As a verb rebuke
is to criticise harshly; to reprove.As an adjective unrebuked is
not rebuked.rebuke
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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.
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(rebuk)Synonyms
* See alsounrebuked
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Adjective
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