talebearing

plural talebearings

1. countableuncountableThe spreading of gossip or rumor.

   The damage done by calumny, detraction, and talebearing can frequently not be repaired.

   1979, Bernhard Häring, Free and Faithful in Christ: General moral theology, page 94

   2 more examples

   waiting to be in her presence to burst into the tears with which he delivered endless, and sometimes even untrue, talebearings

   1973, Taya Zinkin, Weeds grow fast, page 30

   By talebearing, a person may actually violate seventeen negative Biblical precepts, fourteen positive precepts and incur three curses

   2003, Avraham Steinberg with Fred Rosner, Encyclopedia of Jewish medical ethics, page 229

   Synonyms: rumormongering, talemongering, telling tales