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Definition of Reviling
1. n. Reproach; abuse; vilification.
2. a. Uttering reproaches; containing reproaches.
Definition of Reviling
1. Verb. (present participle of revile) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reviling
1. revile [v] - See also: revile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reviling
Literary usage of Reviling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"285. " be unable to pay the same, he shall be committed to THE um> " STOCKS by
the space of six hours for every offence." IV. reviling THE SACRAMENT. Sect. ..."
2. Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings ; Extending from by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"Against reviling Public Criminals. AJ, June 24.—To them that are afflicted Pity
should be shewn, said patient JOB to his miserable Comforters. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... coming nearer, till with shouts and yells and bad words they climbed up the
steep incline and plunged on to the hard high-road, carter reviling carter. ..."
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