rebuking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of rebuke

noun

1. The act of giving a rebuke.

   “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.”