Difference between Obloquy and Defamation

OBLOQUY vs DEFAMATION: NOUN

A malicious attack
Abusively detractive language or utterance; calumny.
The condition of disgrace suffered as a result of abuse or vilification; ill repute.
Contumelious or abusive language addressed to or aimed at another; calumny; abuse; reviling.
That which causes reproach or detraction; an act or a condition which occasions abuse or reviling.
The state of one stigmatized; odium; disgrace; shame; infamy.
Synonyms Opprobrium, Infamy, etc. (see ignominy); censure, blame, detraction, calumny, aspersion; scandal, slander, defamation, dishonor, disgrace.
Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.
Cause of reproach; disgrace.
State of disgrace resulting from public abuse
Disgrace suffered from abusive language.
A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
Abusive language.

A malicious attack
An abusive attack on a person's character or good name
The act of defaming; calumny, slander, or libel.
The act of defaming; the wrong of injuring another's reputation without good reason or justification; aspersion.
[Formerly defamation was used more with reference to slander or spoken words. In modern use slander is spoken defamation and libel is published defamation. Both are subjects for civil action for damages. Libel alone is usually punishable criminally, the common test of criminality being that it tends to a breach of the peace.] Synonyms Detraction, aspersion, backbiting, scandal, libel.
Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.
A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

Derision, Disapprobation, Ignominy, Reproach, Vituperation, Vilification, Ridicule, Scorn, Contumely, Odium, Traducement, Hatchet job, Defamation, Calumny, Opprobrium

Affront, Discrediting, Smear, Insult, Disparagement, Denigration, Slur, Vilification, Libel, Traducement, Hatchet job, Aspersion, Obloquy, Calumny, Slander

Censure, Humiliation, Disparagement, Chastisement, Castigation, Belittlement, Derision, Reproach, Vituperation, Vilification, Ridicule, Scorn, Contumely, Traducement, Hatchet job

League, Distortion, Honorary, Affront, Discrediting, Smear, Insult, Disparagement, Slur, Vilification, Libel, Traducement, Hatchet job, Aspersion, Slander

If this obloquy is to be cast on the jurisprudence of our country, it must arise from the peculiar character of the case.
This will provide an authoritative body whose work will have the effect ofrecognising and declaring conventions and exposing those who breach them topublic obloquy.
The SPE continues to excite both passionate support and equally passionate obloquy, much as have other comparable simulations of human social behavior.
We heap upon them moral obloquy more atrocious than that which the master heaps upon the slave.
This is a miserable subterfuge to shift the obloquy from the judgment.
Of a large harvest of obloquy he is sure.
Obloquy, reproach, opprobrium, abuse, contemptuousness, insolence, rudeness, superciliousness, arrogance, scorn, contempt, disdain.
The public accusation exposes Plaintiff to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy.
And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.
His controversial essays have brought him much obloquy.

However, defamation remains the prime illustration personality interests for this that defamation cases should the law.
Criminal Defamation of Persons: Defamation May Be a Crime as Well as Civil Wrong.
This not only includes libel, which is defamation in written form, but also slander, defamation by spoken word.
Delhave required defamation plaintiffs to put forward evidence establishing a prima facie case of defamation.
Amended Complaint relating to his defamation claims lists fifteen counts of defamation per se.
Their requirement of full adjudication and ajuryfindingof defamation is consistentwiththeirdisapprovalof aninterlocutoryinjunctiothatforbids defamation.
Some defamation attorneys go missing after the defamation removal process has begun.
Truth is an absolute defense against defamation, including per se defamation.
Criminal Defamation There is a growing trend to repeal criminal defamation laws and to replace them, where necessary, with civil defamation laws.
Defamation, which encompasses libel, or written defamation, and slander, or verbal defamation, can occur in the workplace.