Noun

(obloquies)

Abusive language.

* 1748 , David Hume, London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

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 .

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Disgrace suffered from abusive language.

* 1825 , William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age ,

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 .

*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.

Noun

(-)

(obsolete) reproach; reviling

The gracious Judge, without revile , replied. — Milton.