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Revilement

Revilement \Re*vile"ment\, n. The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse.
--Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
revilement

1580s, from revile + -ment.

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revilement

n. The act of revile.

WordNet
revilement

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]

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.