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▪ I. rebuff, n.|rɪˈbʌf|
[a. obs. F. rebuffe (16th c.; mod.F. rebuffade), ad. It. ribuffo (also rabbuffo), f. ri- re- + buffo puff.]
1. A peremptory check given to one who makes an advance of any kind; a blunt refusal of a request or offer; a snub. Also without article (quot. 1847).
1611Florio, Ribuffo,..a chiding, a taunt, a rebuffe. 1685Wood Life 25 Oct. (O.H.S.) III. 168 In Mr. Paynter's chamber, [I received] a rebuff from Dr. Ll...a pedagog. 1736Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 229 Perhaps, if I seek it too much, I might meet with a rebuff. 1784Cowper Task iv. 411 The rugged frowns and insolent rebuffs Of knaves in office. 1833J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. i. 8 Great men love to be courted, and little men must not mind rebuffs. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xviii, All eyes met her with a glance of eager curiosity, and she met all eyes with one of rebuff and coldness. 1880L. Stephen Pope ii. 53 Pope undoubtedly must have been bitterly vexed at this implied rebuff.
b. A check to further action or progress, due to circumstances.
1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 208 Too glorious an Enterprize to be abandoned at the first rebuffe. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy II. i, These perplexing rebuffs gave my uncle Toby Shandy more perturbations than you would imagine. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. (1856) 544 Bontschitscheff met the same rebuff at the same height thirty degrees further west.
2. A repelling puff or blast. rare.
1667Milton P.L. ii. 936 The strong rebuff of som tumultuous cloud Instinct with Fire and Nitre. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Archit. Atoms 52 æolian Monarch! Emperor of Puffs! We modern sailors dread not thy rebuffs.
▪ II. rebuff, v.1|rɪˈbʌf|
[ad. obs. F. rebuffer (rabuffer), ad. It. ribuffare (also rabbuffare), f. ribuffo: see prec.]
1. trans. To repel bluntly or ungraciously; to give a rude check or repulse to (one).
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1655) 319 Marvelling, that hee, who had never heard such speeches from any knight, should be thus rebuffed by a woman. 1611Florio, Ribuffare, to rebuke..to rebuffe. 1697Dryden æneid iii. 319 At length rebuff'd, they leave their mangled Prey. 1774F. Burney Early Diary 30 Mar., I answered.., that I could not possibly comply: he would not be rebuffed. 1827Scott Surg. Dau. vi, He could not find any proper mode of rebuffing, or resenting it. 1869Trollope He knew, etc. xxiv. (1878) 137 She had certainly not intended to rebuff him.
2. To blow or drive back. rare.
1747[see rebuffing ppl. a. below]. 1798Landor Gebir Wks. (1846) II. 493 The fierce element..earths adamantine arch rebuft.
Hence rebuffed |rɪˈbʌft|, reˈbuffing ppl. adjs.
1747Hales in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 582 Those tempestuous, rebuffing, whirling Hurricanes, which bear down all before them. 1788H. Walpole Reminisc. viii. 66 The rebuffing spite of the princess dowager. 1792M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. vi. 265 His manners..are rebuffing, and his conversation cold and dull. 1886Pall Mall G. 17 Apr. 4/1 Some of the rebuffed ones seat themselves.
▪ III. rebuff, v.2 rare.|riːˈbʌf|
[f. re- 5 c + buff a. or buff v.3 2.]
trans. To restore to a buff colour.
1924Galsworthy White Monkey iii. x. 281 On both sides flat houses, recently re-buffed. |