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libellous, a.|ˈlaɪbələs|
[f. libel n. + -ous.]
Containing or constituting a libel, of the nature of a libel: also, engaged upon libels.
1619Visct. Doncaster Let. in Eng. & Germ. (Camden) 138 A libellous booke. a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 238 An itching ear, delighting in the libellous defamation of other men. 1693in Wood's Life (1848) 374 The clauses and sentences..pretending to be reflecting and libellous upon Edward late earl of Clarendon. 1769–72Junius Lett. Pref. 11 The paper..contained no treasonable or libellous matter. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 53 The publication of actual facts may be..criminal and libellous, when directed against private characters. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. iv. 207 The libellous pen of Martin Mar-prelate. 1848Dickens Dombey xv, It seemed hardly less libellous in him to imagine her grown a woman.
Hence ˈlibellously adv.
1832L. Hunt Sir R. Esher (1850) 96 The phrase..was first given him libellously by Lord Rochester. 1865Sat. Rev. 5 Aug. 168/2 Certain naturalists..libellously represented Aristotle as saying that goats breathed through their ears. |