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revilement|rɪˈvaɪlmənt| [f. revile v.] 1. The act of reviling; the fact or practice of employing abusive language.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. iv. 12 Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter rayling and foule revilement. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus iii. 2 If any man prouoke thee by reuilement and reproaches, returne not euill for euill. 1649tr. Warn. fr. J. Beem lviii. 25 He doth not push with the horn of revilement and scorne. 1780Bentham Princ. Legisl. xviii. §34 And thus we have two genera or kinds of offences against reputation merely; to wit, 1. Defamation and 2. Vilification or Revilement. 1881Harper's Mag. LXIV. 216 It is devoted by custom to the particular revilement of Judas. 2. An instance of this; a reviling speech.
1637R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose i. 12 He was not..moved with whatsoever revilements. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. vi. ii. 217 Christ will then vindicate himself from all those scorns and revilements. 1873L. Wallace Fair God vii. xiv, Again the people broke out in revilements. 1880― Ben Hur viii. x, Laughter and ribaldry and revilements, all for the Nazarene. |