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Objurgation

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Noun
  1. 1
    A strong rebuke or scolding. uncommon

    "Nevertheless, spite of this imperial objurgation, the short cloaks continued in fashion down to the time of which we treat, and particularly among the princes of the House of Anjou."

  2. 2
    rebuking a person harshly wordnet

Etymology

From Latin obiūrgō.

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