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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