In the course of its transfer to English through French it has become 'a severe or formal rebuke,' i.e., the act of repressing.

This earned him a formal rebuke from the party elite, which derives both power and perquisites from its allocation of scarce goods.

In 1678 the ferryman, Matthew Hale, received a formal rebuke from Charles II's Secretary of State, Henry Coventry, for unduly delaying a Royal Messenger.

Essentially, censure is a formal rebuke of a member by the Assembly.

In cases like this one, however, where the President's misconduct is wrong but does not represent a threat to the state, a formal rebuke by the Senate does not offend the Constitution.

But the constitutional process has to be reckoned with, as does the need, as a matter of the rule of law, for Mr. Clinton to receive a formal rebuke for his recklessness and lying.

The incident resulted in a formal rebuke by the House of Representatives.

Still, the formal rebuke was chilling.

It was the first such vote ever to succeed in modern Russia, and in theory it carries only the weight of a formal rebuke.

The problem is that House Republicans misused the power of impeachment to deal with Presidential misconduct that deserves formal rebuke but not the ultimate constitutional sanction of overturning an election.