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slander: see libel and slander libel and slander, in law, types of defamation. In common law , written defamation was libel and spoken defamation was slander. Today, however, there are no such clear definitions. ..... Click the link for more information. . Slander See also Gossip. Slaughter (See MASSACRE.) Basile calumniating, niggardly bigot. [Fr. Lit.: Barber of Seville; Marriage of Figaro] monster with 100 tongues; calumnious voice of world. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] the most energetic calumniator. [Br. Lit.: School for Scandal] symbol of slander. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 173] symbol of slander. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 174] malignant Venetian commander; slanders Cassio to Othello. [Br. Lit.: Othello] ill-mannered, mean-spirited, but above all, scurrilous. [Br. Lit.: Le Morte d’Arthur; Idylls of the King] made leprous for maligning Moses’s marriage to Cushite. [O.T.: Numbers 12:9–10] vilifies David, implying he stole Saul’s throne. [O.T.: II Samuel 16:7–8] dedicated to denigrating his betters. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad; Br. Lit.: Troilus and Cressida] |
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