Op-prō'bri-ūm, n.

n. [Lat., from prefix ob and probrum, reproach, disgrace; It. obbrobrio, obbrobrio, Sp. opprobrio, oprobio, Fr. opprobre.] Reproach mingled with contempt or disdain.

Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium, and at an era of English society when the weight of that opprobrium was heaviest. De Quincey.