objurgation
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The day after Sin's objurgation, Marcos raised the level of political tension yet again by placing the 230,000-member armed forces on red alert.
From Time Magazine Archive
The object of all this objurgation is one of unflappable Mac's most steadfast supporters and closest confidants.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the course of the struggle, the preamble, containing much objurgation, was stricken from the resolution and the word "alleged" was inserted before the charges to be investigated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bellowed from the hustings, tintinnabulated over the radio, ululated from a servile press . . . has come the objurgation 'Agriculture must be placed on an equality with industry'.
From Time Magazine Archive
For such sincere objurgation and the very tenor of the letters in which no dishonesty is read, clearly show and declare the spirit of Pompilia, who wrote them.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
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