reviling

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English

Verb

reviling

  1. present participle and gerund of revile

Noun

reviling (plural revilings)

  1. reproach; abuse; vilification
    • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Isaiah 51:7:
      Neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
    • 1825, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape: An Historical Tale, page 205:
      The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, []

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