1832 Times 29 Nov. 2/5 This charge of ‘rebuffing’—that is, they presume, of treating the deputation with rudeness—they believe Colonel Evans must know to be absolutely unfounded.

1860 D. P. Thompson Doomed Chief vi.116 Am I in such power in church and state for nothing, that I must submit to such a vexatious rebuffing at such feeble hands?

1949 G. S. Stokes Agnes Repplier xiv. 229 All this rebuffing of the endless tide of reform.

1974 R. Cohen Labour & Politics in Nigeria v. 154 The rebuffing of a ULC delegation to the Minister of Establishments in May 1962.

2003 D. B. Gordon Black Identity iii. 82 The rebuffing of slavery and racism remains an integral part of the development of any positive black perspective.

1883 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 14 Nov. 2/6 (advt.) I will be pleased to attend to all orders for tuning, rebuffing, recapping of hammers, etc.

1956 S. Wernick & R. Pinner Surface Treatm. & Finishing of Aluminium & its Alloys v. 147 The metal will, in most cases, be ready for coating without re-buffing.

1996 N. Toff Flute Bk. (ed. 2) iii. 35 After polishing, periodic re-buffing with this type of cloth should eliminate the necessity for further polishing for quite a while.

1747 Hales in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 582 Those tempestuous, rebuffing, whirling Hurricanes, which bear down all before them.

1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) viii. 66 The rebuffing spite of the princess dowager.

1854 E. Robinson Westm. Abbey II. xxii. 262 Such was the gorgeous personage who, striding into the porch of the abbey church, suddenly halted as if he had received a rebuffing blow.

1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. xiv. 295 With a rebuffing shake at his own folly Philip was the one to give a loud single rap.

1969 J. S. Tola & H. Lomas tr. M. Siirala Med. in Metamorph. i. 25 The questionnaire sent to the parents was completed by the mother in a rebuffing tone.

2004 D. Connolly tr. D. N. Maronitis Homeric Megathemes ii. 36 Only to revert once again into a rebuffing exchange.