Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of revile
nounreviling (plural revilings)
plural revilings
- reproach; abuse; vilification
Neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 51:71 more example
The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, […]
1825, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape: An Historical Tale, page 205
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