Definition of Defamings

1. defaming [n] - See also: defaming

Lexicographical Neighbors of Defamings

defames
defamiliarisation
defamiliarisations
defamiliarise
defamiliarised
defamiliarises
defamiliarising
defamiliarization
defamiliarizations
defamiliarize
defamiliarized
defamiliarizes
defamiliarizing
defaming
defamingly
defamings (current term)
defamous
defang
defanged
defanging
defangs
defasciculation
defast
defaste
defat
defatigable
defatigate
defatigation
defats
defatted

Literary usage of Defamings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Beaumont & Fletcher by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1890)
"Not with the living ; They feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make 'em truths ; they draw a nourishment Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces ; And, ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"They feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make 'em truths; they draw a nourishment Out of defamings, ..."

3. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces, « And, when they see a virtue fortified «Strongly ahove the batt'ry of their tongues, Oh, ..."

4. The Best Elizabethan Plays by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, John Webster (1890)
"Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces : And, when they see a virtue fortified Strongly above the battery of their tongues, 50 Oh, how they cast to sink it! ..."

5. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1820)
"Americans have too much delicacy, too just a sense of dignity to raise a revenue out of such defamings. No advocate of the Cockney school was employed to ..."

6. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1851)
"... dreams, And make them truths: they draw a nourishment Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces, And when they see a virtue fortified Strongly above the ..."

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