Obloquy vs Obsequious - What's the difference?
obloquy | obsequious |
Abusive language.
* 1748 , David Hume, London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
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, chapter=21 Disgrace suffered from abusive language.
* 1825 , William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age ,
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:It was comparatively easy for him to accept himself as the son of a terribly light Frenchwoman; there seemed a deeper obloquy even than that in his having for his other parent a nobleman altogether wanting in nobleness.
(archaic) Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
* 1927 , (Thornton Wilder), (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) , p. 20
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
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As a noun obloquy
is abusive language.As a adjective obsequious is
(archaic) obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.obloquy
English
Noun
(obloquies)- It is surprising, therefore, that this philosophy, which, in almost every instance, must be harmless and innocent, should be the subject of so much groundless reproach and obloquy .
citation, passage=“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.
- His name undoubtedly stands very high in the present age, and will in all probability go down to posterity with more or less of renown or obloquy .
Synonyms
* (abusive language) defamation, insult * (disgrace) opprobriumobsequious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.
- … the survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow…
- Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
Th’ untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.