All 3 Uses of
opprobrium
in
Middlemarch
- He will tell you, it is all pfuscherei, which is his most opprobrious word!†
Chpt 2 *
- It was not that he was in danger of legal punishment or of beggary: he was in danger only of seeing disclosed to the judgment of his neighbors and the mournful perception of his wife certain facts of his past life which would render him an object of scorn and an opprobrium of the religion with which he had diligently associated himself.†
Chpt 6
- But her silence shrouded her resistant emotion into a more thorough glow; and this misfortune in Will's lot which, it seemed, others were wishing to fling at his back as an opprobrium, only gave something more of enthusiasm to her clinging thought.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(opprobrium) extreme criticism or a state of disgrace resulting from it