opprobriate

English

Etymology 1

From opprobrium +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

opprobriate (third-person singular simple present opprobriates, present participle opprobriating, simple past and past participle opprobriated)

To express opprobrium for or to view with opprobrium; to scorn.
- 1854, Catherine Grace F. Gore, Pin money, page 196:
  It is admitted by all men endowed with that nervous susceptibility of body and soul which the ill-natured opprobriate by the name of jealousy, that nothing can be more trying to a husband afflicted with this distemperature, than to see the idol of his bosom dance, for the first time after her marriage, with another man.
- 1967, Intramural Law Review of New York University - Volume 21, page 55:
  you, without just cause or reasonable excuse, participated in and directed a previously planned public demonstration designed to opprobriate the participation of the United States Government in the affairs of the Dominican Republic.
- 2004, Michele Marrapodi, Shakespeare, Italy, and intertextuality, page 138:
  Shylock's famous line 'My daughter! O my ducats' (2.7.15) is frequently used to isolate and opprobriate him.

Etymology 2

From opprobrium +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

opprobriate (comparative more opprobriate, superlative most opprobriate)

Expressing opprobrium; disparaging.
- 1909, British Bee Journal - Volume 37, page 499:
  There are, no doubt, other bee-keeping nightmares of this ilk, but his term of opprobrium for honey-dew is very opprobriate.
- 1912, Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of Mayors of the Cities of New York State:
  I am not using these terms in an opprobriate sense, but simply as terms that are well understood among us.
- 1875, The Cultivator & Country Gentleman, page 492:
  A woman appeared in a Canada court the other day and made complaint that another woman had called her an "opprobriate epithet."
- 1991, Space Manufacturing - Volume 8, page 94:
  On Earth, courts have concluded that society can tolerate a high degree of provocative and opprobriate speech, to the point that only such speech which will result in riotous actions is unprotected.