Opprobry
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Opprobrium. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"So the Lord may justly object to many of us that we build our owne houses, but suffer the house of the Lord to lye waste, it was an opprobry in Israel, when a man or woman wanted children, [...] and therefore they said when they had children, deus abstulit opprobrium meum. Luc. I. 25. The Lord hath taken away my opprobry; the Lord take away that opprobry and shame from the ministry, that they stand not up as barren and unfruitfull [...]"
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More examples"So the Lord may justly object to many of us that we build our owne houses, but suffer the house of the Lord to lye waste, it was an opprobry in Israel, when a man or woman wanted children, [...] and therefore they said when they had children, deus abstulit opprobrium meum. Luc. I. 25. The Lord hath taken away my opprobry; the Lord take away that opprobry and shame from the ministry, that they stand not up as barren and unfruitfull [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English opprobry, from Latin opprobrium.
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