1. rebuff - Noun
2. rebuff - Verb
Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.
To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThen welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. Robert Browning
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness. Gerard Manley Hopkins
I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world. Anne Roiphe
Only now do I understand the harm done our nation's best interests by the rebuff administered to Poincaré's policy in 1924. Raymond Poincaré
repel the attacker Source: Internet
fight off the onslaught Source: Internet