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▪ I. reˈviling, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb.; a reviling remark or speech.
1535Coverdale Isa. li. 7 Be not afrayde of their blasphemies & reuylinges. 1611Bible Ecclus. xxvii. 15 Their reuilings are grieuous to the eare. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii. 152 Breaches of charity..by the detraction, calumnie, and revilings of our tongues. 1693Dryden Disc. Satire Ess. (ed. Ker) II. 45 Scoffs and revilings are of the growth of all nations. 1795Coleridge Plot Discovered 15 An abusive fellow followed Pericles home with much panegyrical reviling. 1853Bp. Wilberforce in R. S. Wilberforce Life (1881) II. 182, I will not return any of your revilings. 1875E. White Life in Christ i. i. (1878) 5 A persistent reviling of the animals, and a resolute exaltation of humanity.
▪ II. reˈviling, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That reviles; given to reviling; abusive.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 John ii. 44 He gaue no reuilynge worde agayne to any man. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. xliv. viii, By reviling slaundring foe Inly wounded thus I languish. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 139 To smite so keenly with a reviling tongue. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. 196 They came to bitterness, and reviling tearms amongst themselves. a1716Bp. O. Blackall Wks. I. 230 The use of any sort of scurrilous or reviling language. 1833Tennyson Two Voices 220 He heeded not reviling tones.
Hence reˈvilingly adv.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 John ii. 44 He prayed to the father for them that spake reuilyngly agaynste him. 1681Baxter Acc. Sherlock iii. 177 [They] talk revilingly of persons and things which they never knew. |