What is "invectives"

Usage examples of "invectives".

But the repetition of partial and passionate invectives degraded, in their eyes, the majesty of the purple.

Baronius rejects the praise, which appears to contradict the invectives of Pope Gregory the Great.

Leo, than a volley of curses, and invectives, and stones, assaulted the odious minister of the emperor and the synod.

I shall briefly represent the founder of a new dynasty, who is known to posterity by the invectives of his enemies, and whose public and private life is involved in the ecclesiastical story of the Iconoclasts.

Amidst his invectives he drops a precious acknowledgment, qui, utinam quam sanae esset doctrinae quam districtae est vitae.

Twiller house yesterday afternoon to scream invectives at poor Mildred.

The seditious crowd belch out curses and invectives against the clergy, "and, catching sight of an abbé, shout 'Priest!

This or that shopkeeper who, up to this time, had always formed his idea of nobles from his impressions of the members of the Parliament of his town or of the gentry of his canton, now pictures them according to the declamations of the club and the invectives of the newspapers.