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What is the difference between contumely and upbraid?

contumely | upbraid |

As nouns the difference between contumely and upbraid

is that contumely is offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult while upbraid is (obsolete) the act of reproaching; contumely.

As a verb upbraid is

to criticize severely.

contumely

English

Noun

  • Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.
  • * :
    • For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely [...].
  • * 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 19 (ISBN 1857150570)
    • She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening.
  • * 1914 , (Grace Livingston Hill), The Best Man :
    • What scorn, what contumely , would be his!
  • * 1953 , (James Strachey), translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Avon Books, p. 178:
    • If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation.
  • * 1976 , (Robert Nye), Falstaff :
    • I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely , you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.

    upbraid

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The act of reproaching; contumely.
  • * (rfdate),
    • Foul upbraid .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To criticize severely.
  • * Matthew 11:20 ,
    • Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.
  • * (rfdate),
    • How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!
  • (archaic) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; – followed by with'' or ''for'', and formerly ''of , before the thing imputed.
  • * Mark 16:14 ,
    • And upbraided them with their unbelief.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yet do not upbraid us our distress.
  • (obsolete) To treat with contempt.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; – with to before the person.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (archaic) To utter upbraidings.
  • To rise on the stomach; vomit; retch.

    • Synonyms

    * exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproach