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noun: a term that expresses opprobrium, a pejorative
- 1990, Patrick Colm Hogan, The Politics of Interpretation: Ideology, Professionalism, and the Study of Literature, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 45:
- that which is not, say, Marxist, deconstructive, or whatever, is named by an opprobative and characterized as oppressive or patriarchal, naive, and so on.
- less clear
- 1953 July 2, Mel Heimer, "My New York", in Cumberland News:
- I wish I had more space for Miss Brown. However, before we leave, here she is on temperament: "Is it such an opprobative (I've just coined this word)? It's the life and the blood of a performance."
adjective
- 1977, John F. Klein, Arthur Montague, Check Forgers, Great Source Education Group Incorporated:
- Used to describe a check writer, its connotative moral implications are opprobative. On the other hand, the term could readily describe any government or business decision-maker, in which case it not only becomes approbative, it becomes ...
- less clear
- 1648, The articles and conditions of the perpetuall peace... United Netherlands, ... 1648:
- In the preſent Treaty of Peace ſhall be comprehended thoſe which before the inter-changing of the opprobative ratifications, or within three monthes after, ſhall be named on both fades, within which time the ſaid Lord the King ſhall nominate whom he