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Webster 1913 Edition


Calumniation

Ca-lumˊni-a′tion

(kȧ-lŭmˊnĭ-ā′shŭn)
,
Noun.
False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.
The
calumniation
of her principal counselors.
Bacon.
Syn. – Slanderer; defamer; libeler; traducer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Calumniation

CALUMNIATION

,
Noun.
False accusation of a crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.

Definition 2024


calumniation

calumniation

English

Noun

calumniation (plural calumniations)

  1. A false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone.
    • 1822 George Chalmers - The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots: Drawn from the State Papers, with Subsidiary Memoirs
      To all those causes of calumniation, may be added the conduct of Darnley, unlearned, unmannered, untoward, as he was, that gave too much cause for censoriousness to represent, and scandal to propagate.

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