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opprobriate

verb

Etymology

From opprobrium + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

  1. borrowed from opprobria
  2. derived from *pro-✻ — “forward; toward”
  3. learned borrowing from opprobrium
  4. formed as opprobriate — “opprobrium + -ate”

Definitions

  1. To express opprobrium for or to view with opprobrium

    To express opprobrium for or to view with opprobrium; to scorn.

    • you, without just cause or reasonable excuse, participated in and directed a previously planned public demonstration designed to opprobriate the participation of the United States Government in the affairs of the Dominican Republic.
    • Shylock's famous line 'My daughter! O my ducats' (2.7.15) is frequently used to isolate and opprobriate him.

  2. Expressing opprobrium

    Expressing opprobrium; disparaging.

    • There are, no doubt, other bee-keeping nightmares of this ilk, but his term of opprobrium for honey-dew is very opprobriate.
    • I am not using these terms in an opprobriate sense, but simply as terms that are well understood among us.
    • A woman appeared in a Canada court the other day and made complaint that another woman had called her an "opprobriate epithet."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA