Re·buke n.
  1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.
     For thy sake I have suffered rebuke.   --Jer. xv. 15.
     Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?   --Shak.
  2. Check; rebuff. [Obs.]
  To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.
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