improperation
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin improperare.
Noun
editimproperation (plural improperations)
- (obsolete) A reproach; an instance of upbraiding or contumely.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio, published 2007, page 6:
- for, omitting those improperations and termes of scurrility betwixt us [...]there is between us one common name and appellation, one faith