different between opprobrious vs reviling

English

From Old French oprobrieus, from Late Latin opprobri?sus

opprobrious (comparative more opprobrious, superlative most opprobrious)

opprobrious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
opprobrious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

reviling

reviling (plural revilings)

reproach; abuse; vilification
- Neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
- 1825, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape: An Historical Tale (page 205)
  The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, […]

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