rebuking
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]rebuking
- present participle and gerund of rebuke
Noun
[edit]rebuking (plural rebukings)
- 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.