rebuking

English

Verb

rebuking

1. present participle and gerund of rebuke

Noun

rebuking (plural rebukings)

1. 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.