invectiveness

Struggling, as Penn was, against continual temptations to abandon his high ideal, getting no help from his parents, who were displeased at him, nor from the clergy, whose "invectiveness and cruelty" he remembers, nor from his companions, who made themselves strange to him; bearing meanwhile "that great cross of resisting and watching against mine own inward vain affections and thoughts," the only voice of help and strength was that of Thomas Loe.

William Penn George Hodges 1887

Marazzi's position: is correct to say that in last 20 years we have seen bifurcation between profits and accumulation which explains what we have all experienced - wage-stagnation / wage-deflation, growth of private invectiveness - he agrees with attempt to explain this paradox: Brenner writes about this happening in the 70s.

Sonic Truth 2009

I didn’t hear Mr. Bush say, “The American people are real idiots to believe my BS” when he was so playful before condemning the loved ones of his “fellow Americans” to death, but there was invectiveness is that behavior just as well.

Is The Word "WHORE" Offensive? Is it a dirty word? 2008