Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who reviles; one who acts or speaks abusively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who reviles.
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- noun one who
reviles
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Examples
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By many he is called the reviler of the gods, the author of all fraud and mischief, and the shame of gods and men alike.
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Reviling is purposely put side by side with murder, bemuse the disposition that inspires the former leads, when further expanded, to the latter; the reviler is a murderer before that bar which looks only at the heart.
The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870
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If people with freckles or fanciers of schnauzers were suddenly to become popularly reviled, Mr. Levin would position himself as chief reviler.
Crime & Punishment & Goldman Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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If people with freckles or fanciers of schnauzers were suddenly to become popularly reviled, Mr. Levin would position himself as chief reviler.
Crime & Punishment & Goldman Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
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Otherness, critic Mark Lussier usefully revises the traditional characterization of Blake as an archetypal champion of art and reviler of nature as something hostile to the imagination.
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Eagleton also took aim at the late Kingsley Amis, calling him "a racist, anti-Semitic boor, a drink-sodden, self-hating reviler of women, gays and liberals."
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Eagleton also attacks Amis's father Kingsley as "a racist, anti-Semitic boor, a drink-sodden, self-hating reviler of women, gays and liberals".
Eagleton v. Amis 2007
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But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.
Scripture is always relevant Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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