Dictionary entry

Rebuke (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Re‐buke″ (rē̍‐būk″), 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. L'Estrange.

To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.