BACKBITINGS
Noun
backbitings
plural of backbiting
Source: Wiktionary
BACKBITING
Back"bit`ing, n.
Definition: Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.
BACKBITE
Back"bite`, v. i. Etym: [2nd back, n., + bite]
Definition: To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.
Back"bite`, v. i.
Definition: To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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