objuration

"What indeed!" was my pious objuration.

It is the single particle of objuration that has not dared assume, as others have so frequently done, a jaunty or a rollicking demeanour.

M——r, of Maryland, whose published letter of objuration of the United States Government attracted much attention some time since, is under the ban.

The objuration of the boatmen of the Mississippi is very vigorous and racy.