exprobrationn.
/ɛksprəʊˈbreɪʃən/ archaic.† 1.
a. The action of ‘exprobrating’, upbraiding, or speaking reproachfully; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [noun]
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atwiting1340
reprocec1350
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again-chidinga1382
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monishment1896
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [noun] > instance of
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slow clap1937
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Eiiii Remembryng..to the exprobracion and reproue of god, the potage pot..in Egipt.
1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 194 To exacte recompence, is a manifest exprobation of benefits receiued.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 203 His [St. Paul's] commemoration is an exprobration to the Corinthians of their neglect of him.
1705 J. Philips Blenheim 121 Exprobrations false Of cowardice.
1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 144 Uttering the words exultantly, not in exprobration.
b. Rhetoric. (See quot. 1753.)
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Exprobration..in rhetoric, is the reproaching a person with ingratitude, and unmindfulness of some particular benefit conferred upon him.
c. That which acts as a reproach, or serves the purpose of reproaching.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [noun] > object of reproach
upbraidinga1300
hissinga1425
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exprobration1680
1680 W. Waller Divine Medit. (1839) 150 This sun-set..is to me an exprobration.
1682 J. Norris tr. Hierocles Golden Verses 66 If any throw him something by way of alms, that aggravates his discontent as an exprobation of his poverty.
2. A reproachful or upbraiding utterance; reproachful language.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [noun] > reproachful language
exprobration1549
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 6th Serm. sig. Uv He hath stirred vp the people to persecute it wyth exprobacions & slaunderous wordes.
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi. 114 The ears of the accused [are] not alwayes subject to glowing with contumely and exprobration.
1679 R. South Serm. Several Occasions 39 A deniall with scorn, with taunting exprobrations.
1878 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. I. ii. 143 This weak exprobration [protest against the Anti-Papal statutes] itself was the last instrument of an English primate [Warham] who died legate of the Apostolic See.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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