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Definition of Defamation
1. Noun. A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions.
Generic synonyms: Depreciation, Derogation, Disparagement
Specialized synonyms: Assassination, Blackwash, Character Assassination, Malignment, Smear, Vilification, Libel, Slander, Name Calling, Names, Epithet, Name
Derivative terms: Calumniate, Calumnious, Defame, Traduce
2. Noun. An abusive attack on a person's character or good name.
Generic synonyms: Attack
Derivative terms: Asperse, Calumniate, Calumnious, Defame, Denigrate, Slander, Slanderous
Definition of Defamation
1. n. Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.
Definition of Defamation
1. Noun. Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defamation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defamation
Literary usage of Defamation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cases on the Law of Torts by Francis Hermann Bohlen (1915)
"549 to 551, 554 to 558, (1903) : Actions for defamation were common in the ...
When, at length, late in the sixteenth century, actions for defamation became ..."
2. The Law of Torts by Melville Madison Bigelow (1908)
"A owes to B the duty not to publish of B (1) defamation in its nature actionable
per se, (2) defamation in its nature not actionable per se, to the damage ..."
3. The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations Arising from by Frederick Pollock (1901)
"defamation in yeneral. We now pass to the general law of defamation, which applies
to both slander and libel, subject, as to slander, to the conditions and ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"For slander of title, vide Action on the Case for defamation, (CI, &c. ...
To an action for defamation the defendant shall plead not guilty. Lut. 1291. ..."
5. Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History by Association of American Law Schools, Mikell, William Ephraim, 1868-, Ernst Freund, John Henry Wigmore (1909)
"Since the law of defamation professes to protect personal character and public
... Unfortunately the English law of defamation is not the deliberate product ..."
6. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"defamation Defined and Classified — Written defamation, ... defamation Defined
and Classified.— By defamation is understood a false publication calculated ..."
7. The Law of Tortsby John Frederic Clerk, William Harry Barber Lindsell, Wyatt Paine by John Frederic Clerk, William Harry Barber Lindsell, Wyatt Paine (1906)
"defamation. PAGE PAGE Essentials to Action of defamation 549 Joint Injury 553
... Such defamation is called slander. Or it may be embodied in some permanent ..."
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