Definition of Calumnies. Meaning of Calumnies. Synonyms of Calumnies

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Definition of Calumnies

Calumnies
Calumny Cal"um*ny, n.; pl. Calumnies. [L. calumnia, fr. calvi to devise tricks, deceive; cf. F. calomnie. Cf. Challenge, n.] False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. ``Infamous calumnies.' --Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. --Shak.

Meaning of Calumnies from wikipedia

- reproduces, by any means, calumnies and injuries made by others, will be punished as responsible himself for the calumnies and injuries whenever its content...
- The Calumny of Apelles is a panel painting in tempera by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. Based on the description of a lost ancient...
- the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Hor**** of Calumny – Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear. I doubt if the Republican Party...
- pascendi, 7 January 1765, which dismissed criticisms of the Jesuits as calumnies and praised the order's usefulness; it was largely ignored: by 1768 the...
- the libelles of having an affair with Lafayette. Publication of such calumnies continued to the end, climaxing at her trial with an accusation of incest...
- a Scottish Tory. Bute's opponents worked against him by spreading the calumny that he was having an affair with the King's mother, and by exploiting...
- chiefly known as the defender of the children of Lycurgus against the calumnies of Moerocles and Menesaechmus. It seems that in the time of Dionysius...
- considered the first martyr of the Seal of the Confessional, a patron against calumnies and, because of the manner of his death, a protector from floods and drowning...
- polytheism, falsehood, backbiting, deviation, defamation, immorality, calumny and all sinfulness. I submit to You and I declare: There is no deity but...
- lessening the re****tion of that person. Detraction differs from the sin of calumny and the civil wrong of defamation, which generally involve false accusations...