Definitions
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- adjective obsolete Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile.
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- adjective obsolete
abusive ;scurrilous ;defamatory ;vile
Etymologies
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Examples
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Having heard those words, Herodias, the new wife, re - viled John's name.
The Gospel according to the Son Mailer, Norman 1997
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Here Yet (Maxwell, clark); comminxed under articles but phoe-nished a borgiess; from the vat on the bier through the burre in the dark to the buttle of the bawn; is AI an the highest but Roh re his root; filled fanned of hackleberries whenas all was tuck and toss up for him as a yangster to fall fou of hockinbechers wherein he had gauged the use of raisin; ads aliments, das doles, raps rustics, tams turmoil; sas seed enough for a semination but sues skivvies on the sly; learned to speak from hand to mouth till he could talk earish with his eyes shut; hacked his way through hickheckhocks but hanged hishelp from there hereafters; rialtos, annesleyg, binn and balls to say nothing atolk of New Comyn; the gleam of the glow of the shine of the sun through the dearth of the dirth on the blush of the brick of the viled ville of
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Tbcl'e gCDtleoKfl id* viled me to tranl'init an account ot airniv«lto the iaAnry »l Canton, with ibe reajons wttich induced nu: to put in htaci which I accotdinglf i did next day.
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [microform]: From ... 1796
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They reprefented their fovcreign as difhonoured and their country as betrayed, or, in their fiercer paroxyfms of fury, re - viled their fovereign as betraying it.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets 1787
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When he was reviled, rc-viled npt again, when he fujfered, he threatned not.
Steps of ascension to God : written originally in Latin by the famous Cardinal Bellarmine 1705
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400 MISCELLANEOUS consideration, as to entreat a connection in office with those very men whom you had before re - viled and despised?
Junius : including letters by the same writer, under other signatures, (now first collected) to which are added, his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall ; with a preliminary essay, notes, fac-similes, &c. Good, John Mason, 1764-1827 1812
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Sit W, Milner gave it as his opinipn, that incere the Prince ad - viled to purfue his claim to the amount of the revenues of the Dutchy of Cornwall, he would find himfelf involved in a moft dUagrecablc and difgraccful litigation with bis Royal Father, which Jwia 8.]
The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ... Great Britain Parliament, Great Britain Parliament , 1802-1803, 1802-1803 Parliament, Great Britain 1795
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