Opprobrium
Opprobrium is the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
Hanun, king of Ammon, subjected David's emissaries to great opprobrium by shaving only half of their beards and bisecting their clothing. (II Samuel 10)
So Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away. (II Samuel 10:4, NASB)
The two nations had previously been allies.
Note: This image of Hanun's mistreatment of the David's messengers was created by the unknown illustrator of "Speculum humanae salvationis" in the fifteenth century.
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