Word Meanings - REVILEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser.

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• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• REVILEMENT
  The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• REVILING
  Reproach; abuse; vilification. Neither be ye afraid of their revilings. Isa. li. 7.
• REPROACH
  LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. I thought your
• REPROACHFUL
  1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak. 2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. Syn.
• REPROACHLESS
  Being without reproach.
• ABUSER
  One who abuses .
• ABUSE
  1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle shoots rapidly
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• REVILE
  To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach. "And did not she herself revile me there" Shak. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again. 1 Pet. ii. 23. Syn. -- To reproach; vilify; upbraid; calumniate.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• REVILER
  One who reviles. 1. Cor. vi. 10.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• ABUSEFUL
  Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.
• CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
  Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
• REPROACHABLR
  1. Deserving reproach; censurable. 2. Opprobrius; scurrilous. Sir T. Elyot. -- Re*proach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*proach"a*bly, adv.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• IRREPROACHABLY
  In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• IRREPROACHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence.
• SELF-ABUSE
  1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
• DREVIL
  A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.
• SELF-REPROACHING
  Reproaching one's self. -- Self`-re*proach"ing*ly, adv.
• SELF-REPROACH
  The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.