Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of objurgating, or chiding by way of censure; reproof; reprehension.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of objurgating; reproof.
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- noun strong
rebuke ; strong scolding
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rebuking a person harshly
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Examples
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Henry propped himself up on an elbow and looked to see his comrade standing among the dogs beside the replenished fire, his arms raised in objurgation, his face distorted with passion.
The She-Wolf 2010
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Henry propped himself up on an elbow and looked to see his comrade standing among the dogs beside the replenished fire, his arms raised in objurgation, his face distorted with passion.
The She-Wolf 1906
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Obama's policies are certainly worthy of objurgation, especially his grievous misjudgment at the end of 2009 to cast an additional 30,000 troops into the Afghan abyss in support of a failing counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy.
Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama Michael Hughes 2010
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Obama's policies are certainly worthy of objurgation, especially his grievous misjudgment at the end of 2009 to cast an additional 30,000 troops into the Afghan abyss in support of a failing counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy.
Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama Michael Hughes 2010
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Obama's policies are certainly worthy of objurgation, especially his grievous misjudgment at the end of 2009 to cast an additional 30,000 troops into the Afghan abyss in support of a failing counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy.
Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama Michael Hughes 2010
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And she had been divided between objurgation of the stupid, heavy-sleeping butler and doubt if the bell were in order.
To Kill a Man 2010
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“Ass and mule thyself, Hauptman,” said the Swiss, in answer to this objurgation.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Elspat, disdaining to continue the objurgation, or perhaps feeling her grief likely to overmaster her power of expressing her resentment, had left the hut, and was walking forth in the bright moonshine.
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Mr. The Englishman had got as far into his usual objurgation as,
Somebody's Luggage 2007
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The objurgation of David Deans, however well meant, was unhappily timed.
brtom commented on the word objurgation
" Unhappy woman she has been too long and too persistently denied her legitimate prerogative to listen to his objurgations with any other feeling than the derision of the desperate."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 20, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word objurgation
"...the frightful din of the early morning, oaths such as he had never heard, objurgations..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Truelove, 177
March 11, 2008
yarb commented on the word objurgation
He hurled objurgations, in the Canton dialect and bad Malay, against the group of slave-girls standing a little way off, half frightened, half amused, at his violence.
- Conrad, Almayer's Folly, ch. 9
October 18, 2008