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objurgatively en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ɒbˈd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)ɡətɪvli/

Etymology

From objurgative + -ly.

Meanings

1. in an objurgative or reproving manner
   • The foolish Patient still at intervals continued to break in on our discourse, which rather promised to take a philosophic turn: “But I have lost my appetite,” said he, objurgatively, with a tone of irritated pathos; “I have no appetite; I can't eat!” 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IV, Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

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objurgation · objurgative · objurgate