Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
slander .
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Examples
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Accursed be the houre, when she was borne into this World, and her selfe likewise, to bee so lewdly and incontinently given; an universall shame and slaunder, to all the good women of our City.
The Decameron 2004
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All which this venemous pasquill, with eloquent railing and wittie slaunder hath set out at the full.
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All which this venemous pasquill, with eloquent railing and wittie slaunder hath set out at the full.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ladie, and the whole occasion thereof, and thinking to be reuenged of the refusall of loue by her denied, he framed this slaunder to make her lose her life.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Doe you thinke to helpe and succour me, when others shall attempt to obiect vnto my face this slaunder and reproche? but if your selfe doe hurt me, where shall I hereafter seke reliefe and succour.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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The Ianissaries on the other side, a warlike people, and brought vp in continuall exercise of Armes, began with open voyce, to detracte and slaunder their lorde, commonlie complaining howe hee consumed his life like an effeminate persone, without inferring or doyng anye profite to the Empire.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Poets being in deede the trumpetters of all praise and also of slaunder
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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And I am perswaded, that you do not so litle esteeme my father and my husband, who is for your seruice prisoner in the hands of the Frenchmen, our mortal enemies, as in their absence to procure vnto them such defamation and slaunder.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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But certaine times feeling her selfe touched, and her honestie appaired, could not conteine but when she sawe time with her husband, she prayed him verie earnestlie to haue her home to his own house, to auoyde slaunder and defamacion of neighbours.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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All which this venemous pasquill, with eloquent railing and wittie slaunder hath set out at the full.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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