What does calumniate mean?
Definitions for calumniate
kəˈlʌm niˌeɪtca·lum·ni·ate
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Princeton's WordNet
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirchverb
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
"The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
Wiktionary
calumniateverb
To make hurtful untrue comments about (someone)
Etymology: From calumniatus, perfect active participle of calumnior.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Calumniateverb
To slander.
One trade or art, even those that should be the most liberal, shall make it their business to disdain and calumniate another. Thomas Sprat.
To Calumniateverb
To accuse falsely; to charge without just ground.
Etymology: calumnior, Lat.
Beauty, wit, high birth, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subject all
To envious and calumniating time. William Shakespeare, Tr. and Cress.He mixes truth with falsehood, and has not forgotten the old rule of calumniating strongly, that something may remain. John Dryden, Fables, Preface.
Do I calumniate! thou ungrateful Vanoc! ——
Perfidious prince! —— Is it a calumny
To say, that Gwendolen betroth’d to Yver,
Was by her father first assur’d to Valens? Ambrose Philips, Brit.
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calumniate
Calumniate generally means to make false and defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation; to slander or libel.
Webster Dictionary
Calumniateverb
to accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel
Calumniateverb
to propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime
Etymology: [L. calumniatus, p. p. of calumniari. See Calumny, and cf. Challenge, v. t.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of calumniate in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of calumniate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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