c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 41 (MED) We muste forbere blasphemyng, chiding, and reuyling..toward god, for eny of his chastisingis sent to vs.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. li. B Be not afrayde of their blasphemies & reuylinges.

1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. vi. sig. T.iiij [She] thundreth out the venome of her cankred Spirit in reuylings, and raylyngs against her Husbande.

1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xxvii. 15 Their reuilings are grieuous to the eare. View more context for this quotation

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 152 Breaches of charity..by the detraction, calumnie, and revilings of our tongues.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator iii. 263 The Rage and the Disgust..being evaporated by mutual Revilings, and Hatred no longer finding any Fuel to support its Fire, sunk.

1795 S. T. Coleridge Plot Discovered 15 An abusive fellow followed Pericles home with much panegyrical reviling.

1853 S. Wilberforce in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1881) II. 182 I will not return any of your revilings.

1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) i. i. 5 A persistent reviling of the animals, and a resolute exaltation of humanity.

1925 J. Mosley in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1924 137 His voice, though keen with revilings, had a quality that no mongrel ever yet registered.

1961 Times 14 Sept. 13/5 If public reviling and defiance of the bishops..are purely political affairs, then, and only then, Mr. Mintoff is right.

2007 Hollywood Reporter (Nexis) 18 Sept. Despite his reviling of Hollywood,..there's little doubt that Osama bin Laden has submitted to a media makeover.

1534 W. Marshall tr. Erasmus Playne & Godly Expos. Commune Crede f. 142 That pure vnspotted lambe, whiche was so rayled on with so many reuylyng wordes.., was bounden, bespytted, buffeted,..& hanged on a crosse.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xliv. 61 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 37 By reuiling sclaundring foe Inly wounded thus I languish.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon To Parl. sig. A3 To smite so keenly with a reviling tongue.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 196 They came to bitterness, and reviling tearms amongst themselves.

a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. xxiv. 230 The use of any sort of scurrilous or reviling Language.

1791 T. Paine Rights of Man 41 The people who remained during the night in the streets accosted him with reviling and provocative language.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 131 He heeded not reviling tones.

1882 M. J. Safford tr. G. Ebers Burgomaster's Wife 277 If I hear a single reviling word, I'll call the constables.

1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman vii. 70 All the time that I listened to my own reviling tongue, my self-respect was ebbing from me.

1955 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 68 198 Every time I hear this reviling language I can hardly endure it.

2009 Sunday Times (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Sports section) 20 One newspaper..branded him a liar, a cheat and a traitor... Robson, though seriously distressed by the reviling gibberish, rode staunchly through it.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus 1 John in Paraphr. New Test. ii. f. 44 He prayed to the father for them that spake reuilyngly agaynste him.

1681 R. Baxter Acct. Sherlocke iii. 177 [They] talk revilingly of persons and things which they never knew.

1706 Princ. Nat. Philos. made Easie Pref. p. xxxiii [To think] that because man speaks revilingly, or scornfully of him [sc. God], he will punish him.

1850 Cooper's Jrnl. 5 Oct. 417 Those who talk harshly and revilingly of working-men.

1903 P. W. Joyce Social Hist. Anc. Ireland II. xxi. 141 He speaks revilingly of Celestius..as ‘a great fool of a fellow swelled out with Irish stirabout’.

2001 F. Ferré Living & Value iii. 75 ‘To blame’..is revilingly to hold someone guilty of violating the norms of regular social behavior.