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The act of abrogating; repeal by authority.

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The act of annulling; abolition; invalidation.

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Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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To recall; to summon again, as persons.

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A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.

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of Belittle

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False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.

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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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The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.

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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 taking away or withdrawing.

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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.

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Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an aut…

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

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The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny.

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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

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

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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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