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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1644-1695
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Opprobie, n. [e.m.E. opprobie (1617), var. of Opprobry.] = Opprobry n. a. — 1644 Tayler Hist. Fam. Urquhart 45.
To make the opprobie the more notorious 1660-7 Naphtali (1761) 201. 1695 Glasgow B. Rec. IV. 155.
To the opprobie of this town
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