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Obloquy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OB'LOQUY, n. [L. obloquor; ob and loquor, to speak.]
1. Censorious speech; reproachful language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions.
Shall names that made your city the glory of the earth, be mentioned with obloquy and detraction?
2. Cause of reproach; disgrace. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse [syn: obloquy, opprobrium]
2: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions [syn: defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -quies) Etymology: Middle English obloquie, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin obloquium, from obloqui to speak against, from ob- against + loqui to speak Date: 15th century 1. a strongly condemnatory utterance ; abusive language 2. the condition of one that is discredited ; bad repute Synonyms: see abuse

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the state of being generally ill spoken of. 2 abuse, detraction. Etymology: ME f. LL obloquium contradiction f. L obloqui deny (as OB-, loqui speak)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Obloquy Ob"lo*quy ([o^]b"l[-o]*kw[y^]), n. [L. obloquium, fr. obloqui. See Oblocutor.] 1. Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension. Shall names that made your city the glory of the earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction? --Addison. 2. Cause of reproach; disgrace. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: Reproach; odium; censure; contumely; gainsaying; reviling; calumny; slander; detraction.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Reproach, detraction, odium, censure, blame, calumny, contumely, slander, defamation, backbiting, traducing, aspersion, reviling.

Moby Thesaurus

abuse, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, billingsgate, calumny, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, contumely, criticism, degradation, demotion, depluming, discredit, disesteem, dishonor, displuming, disrepute, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, ignobility, ignominiousness, ignominy, imputation, infamousness, infamy, ingloriousness, invective, knock, loss of honor, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, odium, opprobrium, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, revilement, scurrility, shame, slam, slur, stricture, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistism, vilification, vituperation