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Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.

2. (n.) Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.

3. (n.) Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners.

4. (v. t.) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.

5. (v. t.) To scandalize; to offend.


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