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    Vituperation is bitter, abusive — a stream of angry blame aimed at someone, usually out loud and usually at length. It is an uncountable noun: 'a torrent of vituperation', 'much vituperation', never 'a vituperation'. What separates it from plain 'criticism' is that criticism can be fair and quiet, while vituperation is loud, personal, and meant to wound. What separates it from 'insults' is scale and shape: insults are single hits, vituperation is a flood pouring out over minutes or over a whole campaign. You will often see it with words that suggest liquid or volume — a stream, a torrent, a flood of vituperation — and in the phrase 'heap vituperation on someone'. This is a formal, literary word, and it now sounds slightly old-fashioned; it belongs to serious writing about , feuds, and history rather than to speech. If a student used it about their coworker complaining, it would sound grand. In ordinary English you would say 'abuse' or 'a rant'.

    痛罵、謾罵、嚴厲斥責

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組成From Latin vituperātiō 'blaming, censure', from the verb vituperāre 'to blame, to find fault with' — itself built from vitium 'a fault' and parāre 'to prepare, to furnish'. So at the root it is 'the supplying of faults' — piling faults on someone. The English ending -ion makes it the name of the act.

同家族的字

  • vituperativethe adjective from the same Latin vituperāre
  • vituperatethe verb — to attack someone with abusive language
  • viceshares Latin vitium 'fault' at the root

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vituperationnoun/v(a)ɪˌtjuːpəˈɹeɪʃən/

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    The act of vituperating; severely blaming or censuring.

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    Criticism or invective that is sustained and overly harsh; abuse, severe blame or censure.

    • ...but, for several successive days, as she was careful in observing the strictest regimen (..), she actually became much better, especially as to these favourable circumstances was added great calmness of temper, she wisely substituting the quiet sneer of contempt for angry vituperation and vindictive scorn.
    • "Do you call me a spy?" / "And what have you called me? Because you are a husband, is the privilege of vituperation to be all on your side?"

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