Meanings
plural opprobries
- countableobsoleteuncountableOpprobrium.
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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 [...]
1632, An Exposition of the Lawes of Moses, page 201
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinopprobrium
- Middle Englishopprobry
- Englishopprobry
From Middle English opprobry, from Latin opprobrium.
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