Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wounding at the back or behind one's back; backbiting; injuring surreptitiously: as, “backwounding calumny,”
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Examples
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I shrugged my shoulders at all these scandals, and asked the talebearers what had been said about Shakespeare to make him rave as he raved again and again against “back-wounding calumny”; and when they persisted in their malicious stories
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In Measure for Measure, he had Duke Vincentio opine that holders of high office cannot escape unfairly harsh criticism in this life: No might nor greatness in mortality/Can censure scape; back-wounding calumny/The whitest virtue strikes.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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In Measure for Measure, he had Duke Vincentio opine that holders of high office cannot escape unfairly harsh criticism in this life: No might nor greatness in mortality/Can censure scape; back-wounding calumny/The whitest virtue strikes.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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In Measure for Measure, he had Duke Vincentio opine that holders of high office cannot escape unfairly harsh criticism in this life: No might nor greatness in mortality/Can censure scape; back-wounding calumny/The whitest virtue strikes.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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In Measure for Measure, he had Duke Vincentio opine that holders of high office cannot escape unfairly harsh criticism in this life: No might nor greatness in mortality/Can censure scape; back-wounding calumny/The whitest virtue strikes.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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I shrugged my shoulders at all these scandals, and asked the talebearers what had been said about Shakespeare to make him rave as he raved again and again against “back-wounding calumny”; and when they persisted in their malicious stories I could do nothing but show disbelief.
Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916
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Oh, the influence for good that this venom of the devil has poisoned and ruined, for it has been, truly said, "There is no virtue so white that back-wounding calumny will not strike" -- even in God's perfect man, those who are watching and seeking to betray can find something on which to ground their accusations.
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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Oh, the influence for good that this venom of the devil has poisoned and ruined, for it has been, truly said, "There is no virtue so white that back-wounding calumny will not strike" -- even in God's perfect man, those who are watching and seeking to betray can find something on which to ground their accusations.
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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Oh, the influence for good that this venom of the devil has poisoned and ruined, for it has been, truly said, "There is no virtue so white that back-wounding calumny will not strike" -- even in God's perfect man, those who are watching and seeking to betray can find something on which to ground their accusations.
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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"back-wounding calumny"; and when they persisted in their malicious stories I could do nothing but show disbelief.
Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910
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