单词 | denigration |
释义 | denigrationn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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] ΚΠ 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). < n.1641 |
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