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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.
Definition 2024
calumniation
calumniation
English
Noun
calumniation (plural calumniations)
- 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.
- 1822 George Chalmers - The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots: Drawn from the State Papers, with Subsidiary Memoirs