Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-BUKE, n.

1. A chiding; reproof for faults; reprehension. Why hear you these rebukes and answer not? – Shak.
2. In Scripture, chastisement; punishment; affliction for the purpose of restraint and correction. – Ezek. v. Hos. v.
3. In low language, any kind of check. – L'Estrange. To suffer rebuke, to endure the reproach and persecution of men. – Jer. xv. To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.