Aspersion: alternatives and connections

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of…

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The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

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The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.

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Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.

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To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calum…

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To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calum…

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False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.

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Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; sl…

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The act of making black.

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A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemina…

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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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of Sprinkle

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