from obloquor to speak against: ob against, and obloquy

obloquium =contradiction, loquor to speak.] 1. Censorious speech; reproachful language; reproach, blame, slander; language which brings, or is intended to bring, men into odium or reproach. "Even his own sect looked coldly on him, and requited his services with obloquy ."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. iv. *2. A cause of reproach or disgrace; a reproach, a disgrace. "My chastity's the jewel of our house Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world in me to lose." Shakesp.: All's Well , iv. 2. *ob-lūc-tā-tion, s. [Lat. obluctatio , from obluc tatus , pa. par, of obluctor =to struggle against: ob =against, and luctor to struggle, to strive.] A striving or struggling against. "He hath not the command of himself to use that artificial obluctation ."-Fother by: Atheomastix , p. 125 *ob-mür-mür-ing, s. [Pref. ob- =against, and Eng. murmuring. Murmur, objection. (H. More: Immort. Soul , II. ii. 10.)