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noun

Aspersion n.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. "Behold an immersion, not and aspersion."

The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. "Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers." "Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Aspersion" Quotes from Famous Books

... expected invasion of the Pretender? And did ever any parliament give money with greater unanimity, for the support of the Crown, than the present has done, whatever the wants of their private families might be? And must a very great majority of those persons, be branded with the infamous aspersion of disaffection to the illustrious House of Hanover, should they refuse to give their voices for ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IV: - Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church, Volume II • Jonathan Swift

... This horrid aspersion (I regret I am no longer exposed to that sort of insult) made me huffy too. I felt ready in my own mind to back up every assertion of Schomberg's and on any subject. In a moment, devil only knows why, Hermann and I were looking ...

— Falk • Joseph Conrad

... young enough, to be startled at the suggestion, which sounded confidential and blood-curdling in the dusk. He said sharply that it was not very likely, as if defending the absent victim of the accident from an unkind aspersion. He felt, in fact, indignant. The other emitted a short stifled laugh of a conciliatory nature. The second bell rang under the poop. He made a movement at the sound, ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

... explanation of the aspersion on my character when you said I had taken up with Larry Witcom. I'm not going to stand anything on my character in that line if I am earning my living, and you are the mother of one or fourteen families, all ...

— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin

... them. But there are even stronger reasons for recalling contemporary verdicts pronounced on Earle as a man. Hallam, in the "Literature of Europe,"[E] has a short notice of him, and though it shews some appreciation of his ability, it contains a very unworthy aspersion on his character. "The chapter on the sceptic," he says, "is witty, but an insult to the honest searcher after truth, which could only have come from one that was content to take up his own opinions for ease or ...

— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle

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