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Calumniation  n.  False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. "The calumniation of her principal counselors."






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"Calumniation" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the way of human judgment. When one whom we have expected to rise up out of the smoke of obscurity or the fog of calumniation fails in what we feel to be his obligation to the world and ourselves—especially ourselves—faith falters in its place, and gives way to reproach, bitter words, hot arraignments. There is no scorn like the scorn of one who has ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... 1839, Henry Clay delivered a speech in the United States Senate, which was intended to smooth away the difficulties which his moderate opposition to the encroachments of slavery had erected in his path to the presidency. His calumniation of O'Connell called out the following summary of the career of the great Irish patriot. It was published originally in the Pennsylvania Freeman of Philadelphia, ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier



Words linked to "Calumniation" :   slander, assassination, name, derogation, depreciation, names, disparagement, blackwash, obloquy, malignment, character assassination, epithet, hatchet job, calumny, libel



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