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opprobrium


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Opprobrium  \Op*pro"bri*um\,  n.  [L.,  fr  ob  (see  {Ob-})  +  probrum 
  reproach,  disgrace.] 
  Disgrace;  infamy;  reproach  mingled  with  contempt;  abusive 
  language. 
 
  Being  both  dramatic  author  and  dramatic  performer,  he 
  found  himself  heir  to  a  twofold  opprobrium.  --De 
  Quincey. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  opprobrium 
  n  1:  the  state  of  disgrace  resulting  from  public  abuse  [syn:  {obloquy}] 
  2:  a  state  of  extreme  dishonor:  "a  date  which  will  live  in 
  infamy"-  F.D.Roosevelt;  "the  name  was  a  by-word  of  scorn 
  and  approbrium  throughout  the  city"  [syn:  {infamy}]  [ant: 
  {fame}] 




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