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/əspˈərʒən/ Listen

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

... side because he foresaw the need of it. But there was no sign of any softening upon Linforth's face. He could be hard, but on the other hand, when he gave his faith he gave it without reserve. Almost every word which Ralston had spoken had seemed to him an aspersion upon Violet Oliver. He said nothing, for he had learned to keep silence. But his anger was hotter than ever against Shere Ali, since but for Shere Ali the aspersions ...

— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason

... sure that I should attain to such a peaceful state of mind as not to "feel funny"; but Sally had called me a baby, and I had to redeem myself from that aspersion at any price. So I tried to compose my countenance over a beating heart, and think about other things on the way to the beach, as you do if you ...

— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... a denunciation no more than his little subject; and he vindicated the stage from so hard an aspersion, with a warmth not wholly ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay

... You are wild dogs without a leader. You want one that you can trust; you want no coward, but one who fears you not at your wildest. Well, I will be your leader. I do not fear you, and I do not love you, for how have you deserved my love? By ingratitude and aspersion? Who has the King's favour? Francois Bigot. Who has the ear of the Grande Marquise? Francois Bigot. Who stands firm while others tremble lest their power pass to-morrow? Francois Bigot. Who else dare invite revolution, this danger"—his ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... of rich gold deposits had lured them thither— work, by the way, in which there was as little mental satisfaction as pecuniary profit; for a bullet from the pistol of a public-spirited citizen had put that imaginative gentleman beyond the reach of aspersion on the third day of the camp's existence. Still, his fiction had a certain foundation in fact, and many had lingered a considerable time in and about Hurdy-Gurdy, though now all ...

— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians • Ambrose Bierce

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