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Webster 1913 Edition
Aspersion
As-per′sion
,Noun.
[L.
aspersio
, fr. aspergere
: cf. F. aspersion
.] 1.
A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.
Behold an immersion, not and
aspersion
. Jer. Taylor.
2.
The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.
Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale
aspersions
on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote.
Who would by base
aspersions
blot thy virtue. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aspersion
ASPER'SION
, n.1.
A sprinkling, as of water or dust, in a literal sense.2.
The spreading of calumnious reports or charges, which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water.