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单词 denigration
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denigrationn.

/dɛnɪˈɡreɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin dēnigrātiōn-em, noun of action < dēnigrāre : so in Old French (14–16th cent.). As to use, see denigrate v.
Now rare.
1. The action of blackening, or process of becoming black (literally).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [noun]
denigration1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xii. 336 These are the advenient and artificiall wayes of denigration..These are the waies wherby culinary and common fires doe operate. View more context for this quotation
a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. 714 (R.) In these several instances of denigration, the metals are worn off.
2.
a. figurative. Blackening of character, defamation.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun]
teleeOE
folk-leasinga1000
tolec1000
wrayingc1000
missaw?c1225
slanderc1290
disclanderc1300
famationc1325
noisec1325
skander1338
missaying1340
misspeecha1375
slanderingc1380
biting1382
defaminga1400
filtha1400
missaya1400
obloquya1438
oblocution?a1439
juroryc1440
defamationa1450
defamea1450
forspeaking1483
depravinga1500
defamya1513
injury?1518
depravation1526
maledictiona1530
abusion?1530
blasphemation1533
infamation1533
insectationa1535
calumning1541
calumniation?1549
abuse1559
calumnying1563
calumny1564
belying?1565
illingc1575
scandalizing1575
misparlance?1577
blot1587
libelling1587
scandal1596
traducement1597
injurying1604
deprave1610
vilifying1611
noisec1613
disfame1620
sycophancy1622
aspersion1633
disreport1640
medisance1648
bollocking1653
vilification1653
sugillation1654
blasphemya1656
traduction1656
calumniating1660
blaspheming1677
aspersing1702
blowing1710
infamizing1827
malignation1836
mud-slinging1858
mud-throwing1864
denigration1868
mud-flinging1876
dénigrement1883
malignment1885
injurious falsehood1907
mud-sling1919
bad-mouthing1939
bad mouth1947
trash-talking1974
1868 A. Helps Realmah xvii, in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 31/1 I should not care so much about this denigration, if there were not always people ready to repeat to the person blackened all the dark and unpleasant things which others have said about him or her.
1884 C. E. Plumptre G. Bruno II. 135 The denigration of those rightfully held in esteem for their learning and virtue.
b. A stain, a dark spot. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > stained condition > stain
lita1325
pleckc1350
blotc1400
smodc1400
discolouring?a1425
spot?a1425
stain1583
denigration1641
discolouration1666
staddle1691
discolour1812
spang1839
blotting1842
suddle1861
staddle-stead1868
dabble1871
staddle-mark1876
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 149 Let [this] be the denigration, and such a spot in the..Turkish religion, as no Fullers sope can wash out.
3. In the following (with a hyphen) apparently used for ‘unblackening, whitewashing’. [See de- prefix 2a]
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1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 290 A fallen angel whose de-nigration is beyond the power of an impartial historian.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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