Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of reviling; abuse; contemptuous or insulting language; a reproach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
reviling .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
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Examples
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Our survival depends on human revilement of the decomposing corpse as much as it does the entropy that somehow draws us in to the two stages of death that somehow remain poignantly beautiful to us--the initial departure from life and the ultimate disappearance of all trace of that which once was an animated, vital, and special entity.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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Yet, even to accomplish this much in iconographic terms, Silas had to solve the problem of our revilement of corporeal decomposition.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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Yet, even to accomplish this much in iconographic terms, Silas had to solve the problem of our revilement of corporeal decomposition.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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It is but natural that in the face of scepticism which I cannot share I should feel greater faith, that in the face of revilement a sense of the glory of the thing belittled should settle upon me.
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Yet, even to accomplish this much in iconographic terms, Silas had to solve the problem of our revilement of corporeal decomposition.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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Our survival depends on human revilement of the decomposing corpse as much as it does the entropy that somehow draws us in to the two stages of death that somehow remain poignantly beautiful to us--the initial departure from life and the ultimate disappearance of all trace of that which once was an animated, vital, and special entity.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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Our survival depends on human revilement of the decomposing corpse as much as it does the entropy that somehow draws us in to the two stages of death that somehow remain poignantly beautiful to us--the initial departure from life and the ultimate disappearance of all trace of that which once was an animated, vital, and special entity.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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Cleon, the hero of the Peloponnesian war, advocated the public renouncement of friends upon dealing with public affairs -- he paid for it with some revilement by historians.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Regulator Franchise, or the Alan Blinder Problem 2010
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They should be objects of shame, ridicule and revilement.
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We reject the idea that queers should organize for access to the military that depends on our revilement for its existence, rather than for the right to privacy, the right to public life, and the right to life free from militarism.
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