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Definition of Backbitings
1. backbiting [n] - See also: backbiting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backbitings
Literary usage of Backbitings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Satanstoe; or, The Littlepage manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper (1856)
"... society. you are a severe critic on Catos and Scrubs ; but I forgive all your
particular backbitings, on account of your general indulgence and probity. ..."
2. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"... me such as yon would not: I am afraid that among you there are disputes,
envyings, animosities, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings of mind, ..."
3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... and peace, and truth, and plainness, and righteousness, and godliness. But the
fruits of the flesh are backbitings, whisperings, lyings, ..."
4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"and their growth is in the flesh; for the fruits of it is strife, backbitings,
whisperings, and leads to idleness, busy-bodies from house to house, ..."
5. Rules of Discipline of the Yearly-meeting, Held on Rhode-Island, for New-England by New England Yearly Meeting of Friends (1809)
"slanderers, and against all whisperings, backbitings, tale-bearing, reproaching,
... Be careful to avoid all backbitings, whisperings, and tale-bearings ..."
6. The Second Epistle to the Corinthians by John James Lias (1890)
"The word occurs in Rom. ii. 8; Gal. v. 20; Phil. i. 16, ii. 3; James iii. 14, 16.
backbitings, whisperings] "Open slanders, secret revilings ..."
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