单词 | vituperation |
释义 | vituperationn. 1. The action, fact, or process of vituperating; blame, censure, reproof, or (esp. in later use) the expression of this, in abusive or violent language; abuse, railing, rating. Also, vituperative or abusive language.There are few instances of the use of the word before the beginning of the 19th cent.: cf. vituperate v. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > action of using abuse ribaldyc1300 chiding1340 ribaldrya1400 revile1439 revilingc1475 vituperation1481 vituper1484 tongue-sore1542 oblatration?1552 thundering1564 wording1564 revilement1590 slabbery1596 invective1602 campling1660 bitching1706 slangwhanging1809 name-calling1819 slanging1856 rough tonguing1916 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] balec1220 ordurec1390 revile1439 brawlingc1440 railing1466 opprobry?a1475 revilingc1475 vituperation1481 vituper1484 vitupery1489 convicy1526 abusion?1530 blasphemation1533 pelta1540 oblatration?1552 words of mischief1555 abuse1559 inveighing1568 invection1590 revilement1590 invective1602 opprobration1623 invecture1633 thunder and lightning1638 raillery1669 rattlinga1677 blackguarding1742 pillory1770 slang1805 slangwhanging1809 bullyragging1820 slanging1856 bespattering1862 bespatterment1870 bad-mouthing1939 bad mouth1947 slagging1956 flak1968 verbal1970 handbagging1987 pelters1992 1481 tr. Cicero De Senectute (Caxton) sig. Cviij The third part..which Caton answerith,..repreuith them of the seconde defaulte of uituperacyon opposed ayenst olde age. 1602 (title) Ane Satyre of the thrie Estaits, in commendation of Vertew and Vituperation of Vyce; maid be Sir Dauid Lindesay. 1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint 155 When a man becomes vntractable, and inaccessible, by fiercenesse and pride:..then vituperation comes vpon him, and priuation of honour followes him. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 22 Of Rhetorick are six kinds... Vituperation, when we declare a man to be wicked. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > cause of wite1513 vituperation1726 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 305 (bis) Such a Writing ought to be clean and free from any Cavil or Vituperation of Rasure. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1481 |
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