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opprobrium|əˈprəʊbrɪəm|
[a. L. ob-, opprobrium disgrace, infamy, reproach; abusive language or word; cause of reproach, f. ob-, opprobrāre to reproach, taunt: see opprobration.]
1. The disgrace or evil reputation attached to conduct considered shameful; the imputation or expression of this disgrace; infamy, reproach.
1683J. Scott Serm. bef. Ld. Mayor Wks. 1826 IV. 86 Persecuted with all the reproach and opprobrium that the most inveterate rancour can invent. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Opprobrium, a Latin word become English, the Shame that sticks continually to a leud and vicious Act. 1769Junius Lett. xxix. 134 [He] will assert his natural right to the modesty of the quotation, and leave all the opprobrium to his grace. 1858Buckle Civiliz. (1869) II. viii. 573 Spain..has been plundered and oppressed, and the opprobrium lights on the robbers, not on the robbed. 1862Trollope Orley F. xxvii, Great opprobrium has been thrown on her name.
2. An occasion or cause of reproach or reprobation; something that brings disgrace.
1656in Clarendon Hist. Reb. xv. §113 That opprobrium of Mankind..who now calls himself our Protector. 1704F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1711) 140 This Distemper..is become the Opprobrium both of the Patient and Physician. 1861Tulloch Eng. Purit. I. 45 The May-pole..on the village green became a standing opprobrium to his conscience. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 253 A maxim absolutely groundless..the opprobrium of philosophy. |