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Definition of Calumnies
1. calumny [n] - See also: calumny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calumnies
Literary usage of Calumnies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1870)
"... admiration on the part of the men at least of his CHAP. VII. and God- wine.
Norman calumnies against Godwine and his sons. Character of God- wine. ..."
2. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"The most artful and wicked calumnies have been propagated with all the zeal ...
The blackest of these calumnies, as you may imagine, have fallen to the lot ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1870)
"... flouts, calumnies of railers and detractors ; I scorn the rest. What therefore
I have said, ... calumnies ..."
4. 1848: Historical Revelations: Inscribed to Lord Normanby by Louis Blanc (1858)
"calumnies. AMONGST other fatal results of the 16th of April, was that of so
emboldening the re.actionists, that, taking advantage of the unlimited liberty ..."
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