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A rude expression intended to offend or hurt
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revilement
Word definitions for revilement in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revilement \Re*vile"ment\, n. The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. --Spenser.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse , insult , contumely , vilification ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of revile.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from revile + -ment .
Usage examples of revilement.
It might be spoken in admiration or deprecation or revilement, as for instance the Mongols were pleased to call their onetime capital city Karakoren, meaning Black Palisade, while they called a certain large and venomous spider the karakurt, meaning evil or deadly insect.
So every command, instruction, inquiry and revilement, whatever language it might be uttered in, had to be repeated in English for the comprehension of all.
As you yourself told me, the nauthing-stake will go on uttering my revilement of you until your swine heart beats its last.
A man might take a look, when a new-comer would push him on, and take his place, to be in turn pushed on--and there were laughter and ribaldry and revilements, all for the Nazarene.