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rebukeful, a.|rɪˈbjuːkfʊl|
[f. rebuke n.]
1. a. Of words: Of a rebuking character.
1523[Coverdale] Old God & New (1534) D iij, The chefe preestes..fell to opprobrious and rebukefull wordes. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 269/1 Becket..replyeth agayne, expostulating and checking them with rebukefull wordes. 1623Cockeram i, Opprobation, rebukefull, spightfull. 1887Illustr. Lond. News 17 Dec. 700/1 This retort..evoked some very rebukeful language.
b. Of persons: Full of, given to, rebuke.
1868Heavysege Jezebel ii. 81 She turned away Rebukeful. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. xxi, Not that he is rough with them, or querulous, or rebukeful.
†2. Deserving of rebuke; disgraceful, shameful. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 322/1 Rebukefull,..culpable. a1535Fisher Wks. (E.E.T.S.) ii. 429 It shalbe moche rebukefull and moche worthy punishement. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John i. 13 He toke vpon him the rebukefull miserie of our mortalitie. 1570Levins Manip. 187/21 Rebukeful, culpandus.
Hence reˈbukefully adv., reˈbukefulness.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. xxviii, He wyl gyue to the a fayned thanke, & after reporte rebukefully of the. 1552Huloet, Speakinge despitefullye, rebukefullye, or reprochfullye, Opprobatio. 1888Cornh. Mag. May 475, ‘I hope not often’, said Sir Lucas, rebukefully. 1891L. Keith Lost Illusion I. ix. 225 Said Oliver, with cold rebukefulness. |