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calumnies

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noun

  1. plural of calumny

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of calumny

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However, the apostles were not deterred by such calumnies from preaching the Gospel.
Martin LutherCommentary on the Epistle to the GalatiansTranslated by Theodore GraebnerProject Gutenberg ebook #1549
And in this her wisdom was justified, for at last the calumny died down, as all calumnies must die, for lack of sustenance.
Isabel, Lady Burton; W. H. (William Henry) WilkinsThe romance of Isabel Lady Burton : $b The story of her life. Volume IIProject Gutenberg ebook #6402
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As to calumnies, one masterpiece, very widely spread, through the zeal of clerical journals, was that Renan received enormous sums from the Rothschilds for attacking Christianity.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505
They go the length of declaring that this honest creature would do anything for money, that the HISPANIOLA belonged to him, and that he sold it me absurdly high--the most transparent calumnies.
Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandProject Gutenberg ebook #120
Marcellus, on hearing this, appointed lieutenants over his camp, and hasted to Rome to refute the charges against him: and there found ready drawn up an impeachment consisting of these calumnies.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674