objurgatory
Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adjective Strongly rebuking or scolding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Having the character of an objurgation; containing censure or reproof; culpatory.
Examples
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The awful objurgatory practice he is accustomed to.
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But these questions of transient passions and objurgatory provocation are trivial and unimportant.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Among his children, by his wife Hannah, was one John, born March 21, 1667, who became the "young man with somewhat original objurgatory tendencies," and in the autumn of 1684 was rising seventeen years of age.
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The man said something objurgatory under his breath, but forbore to continue the discussion.
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For two hours the colonel, with the occasional objurgatory assistance of his partner, talked, begged argued, threatened, and even wept.
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The friar cursed the fool roundly, as was his wont upon every occasion, for he was none so holy that he disdained the milder forms of objurgatory oaths.
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Then, too, I was much under the influence of Thomas Carlyle: his preachments, hortatory and objurgatory, witty and querulous, that men should defer work in literature until they really have some worthy message to deliver, had a strong effect upon me.
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Never before had I the faintest conception of the breadth and depth and height of a naval officer's objurgatory powers.
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When the rail-cars came thundering through his lake country, Wordsworth attempted to exorcise them by a sonnet; and, were I not a very decided Yankee, I might possibly follow his example, and utter in this connection my protest against the desecration of Patucket Falls, and battle with objurgatory stanzas these dams and mills, as Balmawapple shot off his horse-pistol at Stirling Castle.
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Bless your sweet face!” said Mrs. Poyser, who was remarkable for the facility with which she could relapse from her official objurgatory to one of fondness or of friendly converse.
Note
The word 'objurgatory' comes from a Latin word meaning 'reproachful'.
