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Definition of Rebuffed
1. rebuff [v] - See also: rebuff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rebuffed
Literary usage of Rebuffed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander Kinglake (1877)
"The President being thus rebuffed, his plan of is rebuffed, changing the form of
government with the assent into other of some of the leading statesmen and ..."
2. Led On!: Step by Step, Scenes from Clerical, Military, Educational, and by Anthony Toomer Porter (1898)
"... runs smooth—/ enter upon a business career— Work without pay—My first communion—/
rebuke ribaldry—I renew my suit and am rebuffed—A snake in the grass— ..."
3. The New Far East: An Examination Into the New Position of Japan and Her by Thomas Franklin Millard (1906)
"... CHAPTER IX MANCHURIA Relations of Manchuria to the Far Eastern Question —
Japan rebuffed — The Russian Aggression — Recent Events and Their Significance ..."
4. The New Far East: An Examination Into the New Position of Japan and Her by Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard (1906)
"... CHAPTER IX MANCHURIA Relations of Manchuria to the Far Eastern Question —
Japan rebuffed — The Russian Aggression — Recent Events and Their Significance ..."
5. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann: His Britannic by Horace Walpole (1844)
"... you may be sure was not rebuffed. We have no other news but the American which
keeps our summer in full talk. Every day proclaims something,but so many ..."
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