Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With reproof or reprehension.
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Examples
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"It isn't fair, all the same; you don't play the game," and as my mother had already gone into the dining-room to sit rebukefully at a foodless table I followed her.
Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904
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Somehow it lookd rebukefully strong, majestic, there in the delicate moonlight.
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It was Mrs. Graham who rebukefully sent her own braw young brood scurrying homeward through the gathering dusk, and then possessed herself of Mrs. Plume.
An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier Charles King 1888
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"You actually defend them!" she marvelled, rebukefully.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Henry Harland 1883
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Somehow it look'd rebukefully strong, majestic, there in the delicate moonlight.
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Northern June -- lingered not long with us, but, filling the once peaceful glens and valleys with her pathos, stole away rebukefully before the savage enginery of man.
Quite So Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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"Where are we to find them?" half-rebukefully echoed the young Episcopal clergymen.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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Somehow it look'd rebukefully strong, majestic, there in the delicate moonlight.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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"Where are we to find them?" half-rebukefully echoed the young Episcopal clergymen.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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Somehow it look'd rebukefully strong, majestic, there in the delicate moonlight.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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