The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revile \Re*vile"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Reviled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Reviling.] [Pref. re- + OF. aviler to make vile,
depreciate, F. avilir; [`a] (L. ad.) + vil vile. See Vile.]
To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous
language; to reproach. ``And did not she herself revile me
there?''
--Shak.
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again.
--1 Pet.
ii. 23.
Syn: To reproach; vilify; upbraid; calumniate.
Reviling \Re*vil"ing\, n. Reproach; abuse; vilification.
Neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
--Isa. li. 7.
Reviling \Re*vil"ing\, a. Uttering reproaches; containing reproaches. -- Re*vil"ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
n. reproach; abuse; vilification vb. (present participle of revile English)
Usage examples of "reviling".
American soldiers were fighting to defend American values and rescue a brother nation from Communist aggression-and here were fellow Americans spitting on them, reviling them.
She went on reviling Judge Dee, and her mother soon joined in the chorus.
As soon as the constables had made her kneel before the bench, she began reviling Judge Dee.
Nor can we reasonably blame the average money-getting public for their impatience with the monotonous virulence of men who are constantly reviling them for not living communistically, and who after all, are not doing it themselves.
The custom of reviling those assemblies for corruption, as it had no pretence, so was it unknown during all former ages.
I tell you, sirs, this war which has hitherto been fought among Hieland glens will soon be at our ain doorcheeks, and our puir folk will be called to testify, not with voice and word and the scart of a pen, but with sufferings and revilings and bloody murderings.
I tell you, sirs, this war which has hitherto been fought among Hieland glens will soon be at our ain doorcheeks, and our puir folk will be called to testify, not with voice and word and the scart of a pen, but with sufferings and revilings and bloody murderings.
All the gossip of the Court she knew, all the marriages being made or broken off, all the public stories of her Grace of Marlborough's bullyings of her Majesty and revilings of Mrs.