calumniation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
calumniate + -ion
Noun[edit]
calumniation (countable and uncountable, plural calumniations)
- A false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone.
- 1822, George Chalmers, The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots: Drawn from the State Papers, with Subsidiary Memoirs:
- To all those causes of calumniation, may be added the conduct of Darnley, unlearned, unmannered, untoward, as he was, that gave too much cause for censoriousness to represent, and scandal to propagate.