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▪ I. calumny, n.|ˈkæləmnɪ|
[ad. L. calumnia and F. calomnie (15th c. in Littré).]
1. False and malicious misrepresentation of the words or actions of others, calculated to injure their reputation; libellous detraction, slander.
1564Queen Elizabeth in Froude Hist. Eng. (1863) VIII. 103 Calumny will not fasten on me for ever. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. i. 141 Be thou as chast as Ice, as pure as Snow, thou shalt not escape Calumny. 1611― Wint. T. ii. i. 72 The Shrug, the Hum, or Ha (these Petty-brands That Calumnie doth vse). 1751Johnson Rambl. No. 144 ⁋6 Calumny is diffused by all arts and methods of propagation. 1838Thirlwall Greece V. xl. 118 His conduct..had given a handle for calumny.
2. A false charge or imputation, intended to damage another's reputation; a slanderous report.
c1611Chapman Iliad xx. (R.) What then need we vie calumnies, like women that will weare Their tongues out. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. i. 108 The Synod of Dort rejecteth your accusation as a Calumny. 1751Johnson Rambl. No. 183 ⁋7 To spread suspicion, to invent calumnies, to propagate scandal, requires neither labour nor courage. 1836Gilbert Chr. Atonem. vi. (1852) 168 A calumny against the revealed character of God.
▪ II. caˈlumny, v.
[a. F. calomnier (16th c. in Littré), ad. late L. calumniāre for classical calumpniārī to calumniate. Cf. calumnier, etc.]
To calumniate. Hence caˈlumnying vbl. n.
1563Foxe in Latimer's Serm. & Rem. (1845) Introd. 10 Changing his old manner of calumnying into a diligent kind of conferring, etc. 1895Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Jan. 7/1 The President has not been in office twelve hours..and is already calumnied. 1963Times 10 May 13/5 We therefore consider it especially shameful that..the work of Pope Pius XII should be wrongly portrayed and his thoughts calumnied. |