Definition of Revile

1. Verb. Spread negative information about. "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"


Definition of Revile

1. v. t. & i. To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.

2. n. Reproach; reviling.

Definition of Revile

1. Verb. To attack (someone) with abusive language. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) reproach; reviling ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Revile

1. to denounce with abusive language [v -VILED, -VILING, -VILES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Revile

reviewal
reviewals
reviewed
reviewee
reviewees
reviewer
reviewers
reviewing
reviewing stand
reviewless
reviews
revigorate
revigorated
revigorates
revigorating
revile (current term)
reviled
revilement
revilements
reviler
revilers
reviles
reviling
revilingly
revilings
revince
revinced
revincing
revindicate
revindicated

Literary usage of Revile

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

1. Notes, Explanatory & Practical, on the Gospels: Designed for Sunday School by Albert Barnes (1856)
"But if, in the honest effort to be Christians, and to live the life of Christians, others persecute and revile us, we are to consider this as a blessing. ..."

2. Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order: And Divided Into Five Parts, which by Benedictus de Spinoza (1883)
"But those, on the contrary, who know how to revile men, to denounce vices rather than teach virtues, and not to strengthen men's minds but to weaken them, ..."

3. Ethic: Demonstrated in Geometrical Order, and Divided Into Five Parts, which by Benedictus de Spinoza, William Hale White, Amelia Hutchison Stirling (1894)
"But those, on the- contrary, who know how to revile men, to denounce vices rather than teach virtues, and not to strengthen men's, minds but to weaken them, ..."

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