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oˈpprobriously, adv.
[f. prec. +-ly2.]
In an opprobrious manner; with opprobrium.
1. With opprobrious language, abusively.
1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clxxxvi. 187 He rebuked hym otherwyse than was syttynge with his honour, and called hym obprobriously. 1578Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (1851) 453 The immaculate Lamb,..who being opprobriously railed at, opened not his mouth. 1645Milton Tetrach. Introd., It serv'd him..to inveigh opprobriously against the person, branding him with no lesse then impudence. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxvii. 67 The king, whom they opprobriously called the Black Bastard. 1843J. Martineau Chr. Life (1867) 184 The world (as divines opprobriously term it). 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 82 He had, at Versailles, spoken opprobriously of the Irish nation.
†2. In a way involving shame or disgrace; with indignity, contumeliously, ignominiously. Obs.
1602T. Fitzherbert Apol. 39 The Iewes finding it [an image of Christ], vsed it most opprobriously, & pearced it with a lance. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts (1684) 105 The Fish, whereby Fornicatours were so opprobriously and irksomely punished. |