scandalizern.
/ˈskandəlʌɪzə/ 1. One who slanders; a libeller.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun] > one who slanders
missayer1340
slandererc1340
jurorc1380
third tonguea1382
defamerc1425
malignerc1425
disclanderer1447
praterc1500
evil-sayer1530
ill sayera1533
infamera1533
belier1541
sycophant1548
calumniatorc1550
disgracer1570
infamator1571
depraver1584
calumnier1586
libeller1589
infamizer1593
maldisant1598
oblocutor1603
traducer1603
villainizer1605
vilifier1611
calumner1614
scandallerc1620
scandalizer1632
blackmouth1642
deflowerer1645
famer1646
defamator1658
reflector1681
reflecter1686
asperser1702
bedirtera1742
libellist1794
mud-flinger1839
denigrator1875
mud-slinger1876
tar-brusher1884
libellant-
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 409 A damnable scandalizer of the Church.
1680 J. Phillips Dr. Oates's Narr. Vindicated 52 The Scandalizer of the Presbyterians, and the Vindicator of the English Cath.s.
1865 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 484 The assembled fathers decreed that the corpse of the scandaliser of women should forthwith be exhumed.
2. One who places a moral stumbling-block in the way of another. ? Obsolete.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > atheism > [noun] > occasion of or stumbling block > one who causes
scandalizer1684
1684 R. Baxter Catholick Communion 28 Even those little ones of whose scandalizers and neglecters Christ spake so terribly, were none of them without some Sin.
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