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Reviler   Listen
noun
Reviler  n.  One who reviles.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Reviler" Quotes from Famous Books



... AEsir, or gods, is reckoned one named Loki or Loptur. By many he is called the reviler of the gods, the author of all fraud and mischief, and the shame of gods and men alike. He is the son of the giant Farbauti, his mother being Laufey or Nal, and his brothers Byleist and Helblindi. He is of a goodly appearance and elegant form, but his mood is ...
— Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian • Various

... to have faith in miracles," said Lucie, with arch gravity; "surely nothing less than one could transform the gallant De Valette, the very pink of chivalrous courtesy, into a reviler of that sex, who"— ...
— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney

... Augustine (De Doctr. Christ. ii, 3), "compared with words all other signs are very few, for words have obtained the chief place among men for the purpose of expressing whatever the mind conceives." Hence reviling, properly speaking, consists in words: wherefore, Isidore says (Etym. x) that a reviler (contumeliosus) "is hasty and bursts out (tumet) in injurious words." Since, however, things are also signified by deeds, which on this account have the same significance as words, it follows that reviling in a ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... caught the motion, and he whirled suddenly in a backward course and danced past his reviler again, this time much nearer than before. "Better try it," he said, in a low, half-laughing tone that no one heard but Billy and myself. He was out of range in an instant, still laughing ...
— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley

... kept the races longer separate and antagonistic. Perhaps the most humiliating notice of the degrading effects of conquest on the noble Saxon race to be found in history, is the language in which Giraldus Cambrensis, the reviler of the Irish Celt, contrasts them with his countrymen, the Welsh. 'Who dare,' he says, 'compare the English, the most degraded of all races under heaven, with the Welsh? In their own country they are the serfs, the veriest slaves of the Normans. ...
— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin



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