Opprobrium vs Ochlagogy - What's the difference?
opprobrium | ochlagogy |
Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.
Scornful reproach or contempt
A cause of shame or disgrace.
(rare) Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
* 1962 : Cecil John Ellington and A. G. Russell of the Classical Association (Great Britain), Greece and Rome , “Peripatos: The Athenian Philosophical Scene?—?II”,
As nouns the difference between opprobrium and ochlagogy
is that opprobrium is disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy while ochlagogy is (rare) manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.opprobrium
English
Noun
- Don't give him a term of opprobrium .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "opprobrium")Synonyms
* (scornful reproach) blame, castigation, censure, defamation, derision, invective, libel, reproach, revilement, scolding, signifying, tirade, upbraiding, vilification, vituperation * (cause of shame or disgrace) curseochlagogy
English
Noun
(-)page 21(The Clarendon Press)
- One can imagine what Epicurus would have thought of the ochlagogy of Herodes Atticus and his contemporaries, and the noisy demonstrations which it evoked.
