Translation for 'rebuke' from English to French

to rebuke sb.

réprimander qn.

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rebuke

semonce {f}

admonition {f}

mercuriale {f} [semonce]

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sharp rebuke

admonestation {f}

• In English law and the canon law of the Church of England, a rebuke is a censure on a member of the clergy. A rebuke can be given in person by a bishop or by an ecclesiastical court.
• The story is widely understood to be a rebuke of U.S. Senator William Proxmire's criticism of space exploration.
• A rebuke or any utterance conveying a negative emotion is frequently said with lips rounded throughout.
• Rogers put a full band together in 1985 before recording the next album: "Dog... Tree... Satellite Seers", a scathing rebuke to "faux-lysergic posers".
• that "you shall surely rebuke your neighbor" that one is obliged to reprove a neighbor whom one observes doing something wrong.

• Ch. 8: The gipsies are evicted, provoking a dramatic rebuke by Meg.
• She also used the term "Sambo" on other occasions, drawing a rebuke from her old friend Frederick Douglass.
• Sullivan's victory was seen as a rebuke of the Ku Klux Klan.
• Several bullauns are located under a slab and were known as "clocha mealachta" (stones of rebuke).
• "Plain Truth" is a pamphlet authored by the loyalist James Chalmers in 1776, as a rebuke of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense".

• The title of Mehboob Khan's 1957 Hindi epic film "Mother India" is a deliberate rebuke to Mayo's book.
• The press coverage resulted in a rebuke from Dermot Gallagher, the Secretary General of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.
• The position of the scientist in motion estimation Haidamaks provoked a rebuke T. Shevchenko in his poem "Cold Yar.
• Targum Jonathan describes a Temple visit as an opportunity to learn from the rebuke of the "priests and sages".
• Conkling and Platt then stood for re-election thus trying to rebuke the President and be vindicated by the State Legislature.

• Gustave Flaubert likens a teacher's rebuke of misbehaving students to "the Quos ego" in the opening scene of "Madame Bovary".
• Rabbi Elazar wept whenever he read [...] , for if men became too frightened to answer a wronged brother, how much more frightening will they find God's rebuke.
• The penitential Psalm 6, " [...] " (O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, [...]) is set in one movement.