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slanderer|ˈslɑːndərə(r), -æ-|
Also 4–6 sclaund- (6 sclaunderour, Sc. sclanderar); 4 sklaund-, 6–7 Sc. skland- (6 -erar); 5–7 slaunderer.
[f. slander v. + -er1.]
1. One who slanders, one who devises or utters false or malicious statements about a person, etc.; a defamer or calumniator.
αc1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 14 It semeþ þat þei ben..sclaunder[er]is of crist, puttyng on hym siche worldly pompe and ypocrisie. 1388― Titus ii. 3 Olde wymmen in hooli abite, not sclaundereris. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 11 Spyes, lyers, and grete sclaunderers. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 468, I saye they be sclaunderers, and ennemies of the common countrie. 1647Hexham i, A sclaunderer, een lasterder.
βc1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 7042 Þe domes salle þan be redy Tille þe sklaunderers of God alle myghty. 1585Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 40 The sklanderaris of his Hienes. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Burrow Laws 155 Gif there be any sklanderers, rebelles, or nicht walkers within the burgh.
γ1535Coverdale Ps. xliii. 15 The voyce of the slaunderer & blasphemer. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 467 b, The slanderer afterwarde, loste his head, as he deserved. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 260 Stir not you till you haue Well determin'd vpon these Slanderers. 1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. 1851 V. 425 To be ourselves the slanderers of our own just and religious Deeds. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xi. i, Much of it will probably seem too severe, when applied to the slanderer of books. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. i. i, The male slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before he can traduce one. 1829Lytton Devereux i. iii, Ye are both my foes and slanderers. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1875) III. 50 The slanderers were ready with long tales of rapine and sacrilege.
†2. A source of discredit or disrepute. Obs.—1
1558Kennedy Compend. Treat. (Wodrow Soc.) 151 Are thay not oppin sclanderaris of the Congregatioun, quhilkis sulde be myrouris of gude lyfe? |