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In this morning's reading from the Gospel according to Saint Mark, there was a whole lot of rebuking going on. Peter rebukes Jesus for saying something Peter doesn't want to hear. Jesus, in turn, rebukes Peter for being a meathead. Lots of rebuking.
One of the teenagers approached me at the coffee hour and asked what rebuke meant. I gave a sort of half-adequate answer by suggesting that it means "to chew out royally." I guess this must not be a word used much outside of the biblical context, eh?
Looks like it can be both a verb and a noun.
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The past is always a rebuke to the present; it's bound to be, one way or another: it's your great rebuke. It's a better rebuke than any dream of the future. It's a better rebuke because you can see what some of the costs were, what frail virtues were achieved in the past by frail men. - Robert Penn Warren, at the Fugitives' reunion, May 1956 according to one Shakespearean search tool, the Bard used rebuke twenty-seven(27) times in his plays. to wit: CLEOPATRA: Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent. MARK ANTONY: A good rebuke, Which might have well becomed the best of men, To taunt at slackness. rebuke was also a useful word to James Joyce; e.g. in Ulysses: Having delivered himself of this rebuke he saluted those present on the by and repaired to the door. A murmur of approval arose from all and some were for ejecting the low soaker without more ado...[he goes on at some length] as could I. 
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[he (James Joyce) goes on at some length]
...as could I.
Forsooth, the tsuwm doth measure his statue against giants and bards.
Lo, such is the stuff that dreams are made on, and our life is rounded with a sleep.
Take a homely man's advice and consider yourself rebuked. 
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 Interesting that so many possible synonyms or partial equals also share so much sound value: * Reproof * Reproach * Reprimand * Repulse * Repress You could also have offered them a prize, Father Steve: “whoever can tell me what’s the connection to a deerly beloved creature in the next 7 days…”
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> sneaker you rang?
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You could also have offered them a prize, Father Steve: “whoever can tell me what’s the connection to a deerly beloved creature in the next 7 days…”
Seariously?
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he saluted those present on the by and repaired to the door. A murmur of approval arose from all and some were for ejecting the low soaker without more ado What's a by and what's a soaker, please? The water gun sense doesn't seem to fit, here!
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Jackie, the best way I can explain it is "in passing".
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and a soaker is a toper is a drunk. an old soaker is in the vernacular; but I don't think a super soaker is.
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