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"etymology_text": "PIE word\n *dwóh₁\nLearned borrowing from Latin vituperātus (“censured; disparaged”) + English -ate (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by [the specified thing]’, and forming verbs with the sense ‘to act in [the specified manner]’). Vituperātus is the perfect passive participle of vituperō (“to blame, scold, tell off; to censure; to disparage, find fault with”), from vitium (“blemish, defect, flaw, imperfection; crime, misdeed, wrongdoing; fault, error, sin; vice; disease (of plants)”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(d)wi-tyo- (“apart; wrong”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”)) + parō (“to acquire, get, obtain, procure; to arrange, order; to contrive, design; to furnish, provide; to produce; to decide, resolve”) (from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to get, procure; to produce; to bring forward; to bring forth, carry forth; to go through”)).",
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"ref": "1576, Andrewe Boord [i.e., Andrew Boorde], “Treateth of Fleshe, of Wylde, and Tame Beastes. [Porke, Brawne, Bacon, Pygge.]”, in Here Followeth a Compendious Regiment, or Dietarie of Health. […], London: […] H. Jackson, →OCLC",
"text": "They loue not porke, nor ſwynes fleſh, but doth vituperate and abhore it, yet for all this, they will eate Adders, which is a kind of Serpentes, as well as any other Chriſtyan man dwelling in Roome, and other highe countreys, for Adders fleſhe there, is called fyſhe of the mountayne, this notwithſtanding Phiſicke doeth approbate adders fleſh good to be eaten, […]",
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"ref": "1652, S. S[heppard], “Amorous Letters. [A Gentleman Being Calumniated to a Lady (whom Perhaps He Affects) of Detracting from Her Honour, thus Vindicates Himself by Letter.]”, in The Secretaries Studie; Containing New Familiar Epistles. […], London: […] T. H. for John Harrison […], →OCLC, page 51",
"text": "[M]y beſt Lady, you knovv, and many better men then he have told you, that I am ſo far from vvronging you vvith a falſhood, that I have maintained your honor vvith the hazzard of my life againſt any that ever durſt vituperate you; […]",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1795 October 31 – November 15, “Observations on the Insults Offered to the Person of His Majesty, in His Way to and Return from the House of Lords”, in The Register of the Times, or, Political Museum: […], volume VII, London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, for B. Crosby, […], →OCLC, page 137, column 1",
"text": "We are not ignorant that it has long obtained as a principle amongst writers and declaimers of a certain class, to poison as much as they can the public mind, not only by representing royalty in this nation as superfluous and ridiculous, but by vituperating, and vilifying, by every false, ridiculous, and scandalous aspersion within the compass of their gross and sterile imaginations, the person, conduct, public and domestic pursuits of our most gracious monarch.",
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"ref": "1832 April 4, “From an Unpublished Romance of the Seventeenth Century. An Interview.—Its Consequences.”, in The Day, a Morning Journal of Literature, Fine Arts, Fashion, &c., number 81, Glasgow: R. & J. Finlay, […], →OCLC, page 321",
"text": "['T]is false as hell, and thou vituperatest thine own sex in saying so, lady. Wert thou the daughter of a king, instead of a proud Popish Knight, I would say so to thy face.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1835, chapter IV, in Blackbeard. A Page from the Colonial History of Philadelphia. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 39",
"text": "Bear witness all ye, that Nicolas Salomen vituperateth our goodly fellowship; for this must he needs swallow another goblet.",
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"ref": "1882 July, W. L. Watkinson, “An Italian Pessimist”, in Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, volume VI (6th Series), London: Wesleyan-Methodist Book-Room, […], →OCLC, page 503, column 1",
"text": "[Giacomo] Leopardi was not mistaken as to the profound defects and disorders of nature. He vituperates nature in many a bitter satirical passage.",
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"ref": "1896, J[ames] E[dward] Muddock, “In the Serpent’s Coils”, in Basile the Jester: A Romance of the Days of Mary Queen of Scots, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 253",
"text": "Thy evil-speaking tongue shall yet cry aloud for pity from the royal lady whom thou now vituperatest. Go to; thou art an unworthy traitor, and shouldst be hanged.",
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"ref": "1997, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, “A Flower of Evil: Young Men in Medieval Italy”, in Camille Naish, transl., edited by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, A History of Young People in the West (Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage), volume 1, Cambridge, Mass., London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, page 185",
"text": "Women remained the central target of restrictions and condemnations. But as the fifteenth century progressed, the giovani, guilty of the same excesses, were vituperated in their turn. Even in the early fourteenth century, regulations took note of luxurious male clothes. Any man past the age of ten was not supposed to wear velvet or silks woven with gold or silver.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rugaja",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "ругая"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "痛罵"
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"_dis1": "85 5 10",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tòngmà",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "痛骂"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "beschimpen"
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"_dis1": "85 5 10",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "uitschelden"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "vitupérer"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gaḳriṭiḳeba",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "გაკრიტიკება"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gineba",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "გინება"
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "lanʒɣva",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "ლანძღვა"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "ausschimpfen"
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"_dis1": "85 5 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "beschimpfen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "schelten"
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"_dis1": "85 5 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "tadeln"
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"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "vituperàre"
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"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "vituperō"
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"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "vitupera"
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"roman": "korítʹ",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "кори́ть"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kritikovatʹ",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
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"word": "критиковать"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ponositʹ",
"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
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"word": "поносить"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "vituperar"
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"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
"word": "klandra"
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"ref": "1773, J. R., “An Essay on Envy”, in I[saac] Thompson, editor, The Literary Register: Or, Weekly Miscellany. […], volume V, Newcastle, Northumberland: […] Compilers of that news-paper, →OCLC, page 373, column 1",
"text": "A bane to merit, he exerts himſelf to the deſtruction of every valuable virtue in literature, or in life: his pen is ne'er employed but in the abuſing and vituperating the innocent and meritorious; and like a voracious flie, he leaves and diſregards every accompliſhment, to fix upon the only ſore.",
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"ref": "1797 April 16, J[ohn] S[key] Eustace, “General Eustace to Mr. J. W. Ebervelt, of the West-India Colonial Committee, at the Hague”, in Letters on the Emancipation & Preservation of the United Provinces, to John De Witt, Esquire; with Lessons of Humanity, Addressed to Nicholas Van Staphorst: Written from Basil, in the Year 1794, Rotterdam: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 96",
"text": "[…] I learn that I have enemies, who, not content to hate, are sedulous to vituperate me.",
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"ref": "1909 May 14, [Hernando] Money, “Senate Resolution 44. Resolved, That the President be Requested to Transmit to the Senate All Information Collected by the Department of Commerce and Labor Affecting the Prices of Tobacco and the Operations of Corporations and Others Dealing in the Same.”, in Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the Sixty-first Congress, First Session, also Special Session of the Senate (United States Senate), volume XLIV, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2045, column 1",
"text": "[T]he Senator from Rhode Island, in charge of the bill, had been denounced and vituperated, and had shown remarkable patience in enduring these repeated insults; […]",
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"roman": "hulja",
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"word": "хуля"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "korjá",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "коря́"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zloslovja",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "злословя"
},
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "痛罵"
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tòngmà",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "痛骂"
},
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gineba",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "გინება"
},
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "lanʒɣva",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "ლანძღვა"
},
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "schmähen"
},
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "stänkern"
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "verunglimpfen"
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ónomai",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "ὄνομαι"
},
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "vituperàre"
},
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "skända"
},
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"_dis1": "18 71 11",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to attack (someone or something) with abusive language — see also revile, vilify",
"word": "skymfa"
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"ref": "1870 July, Edward [Augustus] Freeman, “The Alleged Permanence of Roman Civilization in England”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XXII, number 129, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 225, column 2",
"text": "Now the Brito-Celtic Church as Mr. [Henry Charles] Coote calls it, the Church which Augustine vituperated, is a fact, but I should certainly like to have some proof of the existence of the other, the \"Early English Church\" which Augustine ignored. And I should further like to know why he vituperated in the one case and ignored in the other.",
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"text": "At the same time, a broadsheet entitled Memoirs of the Political Life of Robert Alexander and others was published anonymously but was evidently written by Borthwick because he sent a copy to Henry Cockburn. It was a vituperate attack on Alexander, accusing him of being a ne'er-do-well fraudster.",
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"text": "These, and many more that might be adduced, are instances of the obscure though not absolutely impervious medium through which the present age views ancient history; and at the head of these illusions, is the great illusion of all, on wealth and poverty. Wealth was to be discreditable, unmanly, vituperate, because it was found greatly to indispose men to be active thieves. […] This is the sorry explanation, of the ancient theory of heroic poverty.",
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"ref": "1576, Andrewe Boord [i.e., Andrew Boorde], “Treateth of Fleshe, of Wylde, and Tame Beastes. [Porke, Brawne, Bacon, Pygge.]”, in Here Followeth a Compendious Regiment, or Dietarie of Health. […], London: […] H. Jackson, →OCLC",
"text": "They loue not porke, nor ſwynes fleſh, but doth vituperate and abhore it, yet for all this, they will eate Adders, which is a kind of Serpentes, as well as any other Chriſtyan man dwelling in Roome, and other highe countreys, for Adders fleſhe there, is called fyſhe of the mountayne, this notwithſtanding Phiſicke doeth approbate adders fleſh good to be eaten, […]",
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"ref": "1652, S. S[heppard], “Amorous Letters. [A Gentleman Being Calumniated to a Lady (whom Perhaps He Affects) of Detracting from Her Honour, thus Vindicates Himself by Letter.]”, in The Secretaries Studie; Containing New Familiar Epistles. […], London: […] T. H. for John Harrison […], →OCLC, page 51",
"text": "[M]y beſt Lady, you knovv, and many better men then he have told you, that I am ſo far from vvronging you vvith a falſhood, that I have maintained your honor vvith the hazzard of my life againſt any that ever durſt vituperate you; […]",
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"text": "We are not ignorant that it has long obtained as a principle amongst writers and declaimers of a certain class, to poison as much as they can the public mind, not only by representing royalty in this nation as superfluous and ridiculous, but by vituperating, and vilifying, by every false, ridiculous, and scandalous aspersion within the compass of their gross and sterile imaginations, the person, conduct, public and domestic pursuits of our most gracious monarch.",
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"ref": "1832 April 4, “From an Unpublished Romance of the Seventeenth Century. An Interview.—Its Consequences.”, in The Day, a Morning Journal of Literature, Fine Arts, Fashion, &c., number 81, Glasgow: R. & J. Finlay, […], →OCLC, page 321",
"text": "['T]is false as hell, and thou vituperatest thine own sex in saying so, lady. Wert thou the daughter of a king, instead of a proud Popish Knight, I would say so to thy face.",
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"ref": "1835, chapter IV, in Blackbeard. A Page from the Colonial History of Philadelphia. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 39",
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"ref": "1882 July, W. L. Watkinson, “An Italian Pessimist”, in Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, volume VI (6th Series), London: Wesleyan-Methodist Book-Room, […], →OCLC, page 503, column 1",
"text": "[Giacomo] Leopardi was not mistaken as to the profound defects and disorders of nature. He vituperates nature in many a bitter satirical passage.",
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"ref": "1896, J[ames] E[dward] Muddock, “In the Serpent’s Coils”, in Basile the Jester: A Romance of the Days of Mary Queen of Scots, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 253",
"text": "Thy evil-speaking tongue shall yet cry aloud for pity from the royal lady whom thou now vituperatest. Go to; thou art an unworthy traitor, and shouldst be hanged.",
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"ref": "1997, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, “A Flower of Evil: Young Men in Medieval Italy”, in Camille Naish, transl., edited by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, A History of Young People in the West (Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage), volume 1, Cambridge, Mass., London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, page 185",
"text": "Women remained the central target of restrictions and condemnations. But as the fifteenth century progressed, the giovani, guilty of the same excesses, were vituperated in their turn. Even in the early fourteenth century, regulations took note of luxurious male clothes. Any man past the age of ten was not supposed to wear velvet or silks woven with gold or silver.",
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"text": "A bane to merit, he exerts himſelf to the deſtruction of every valuable virtue in literature, or in life: his pen is ne'er employed but in the abuſing and vituperating the innocent and meritorious; and like a voracious flie, he leaves and diſregards every accompliſhment, to fix upon the only ſore.",
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"ref": "1797 April 16, J[ohn] S[key] Eustace, “General Eustace to Mr. J. W. Ebervelt, of the West-India Colonial Committee, at the Hague”, in Letters on the Emancipation & Preservation of the United Provinces, to John De Witt, Esquire; with Lessons of Humanity, Addressed to Nicholas Van Staphorst: Written from Basil, in the Year 1794, Rotterdam: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 96",
"text": "[…] I learn that I have enemies, who, not content to hate, are sedulous to vituperate me.",
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"ref": "1909 May 14, [Hernando] Money, “Senate Resolution 44. Resolved, That the President be Requested to Transmit to the Senate All Information Collected by the Department of Commerce and Labor Affecting the Prices of Tobacco and the Operations of Corporations and Others Dealing in the Same.”, in Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the Sixty-first Congress, First Session, also Special Session of the Senate (United States Senate), volume XLIV, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2045, column 1",
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"text": "Now the Brito-Celtic Church as Mr. [Henry Charles] Coote calls it, the Church which Augustine vituperated, is a fact, but I should certainly like to have some proof of the existence of the other, the \"Early English Church\" which Augustine ignored. And I should further like to know why he vituperated in the one case and ignored in the other.",
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"ref": "1876, [Margaret] Oliphant, “A Peaceful Citizen”, in The Makers of Florence: Dante, Giotto, Savonarola; and Their City, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, footnote 1, pages 168–169",
"text": "Agnolo [Pandolfini] has logic on his side in the very extreme to which he goes; but, like most of his successors in this dangerous line of remark, he loses his temper and begins to vituperate, though his rage is not against the weaker being whom he frankly despises [i.e., woman], but against the men who do not despise her.",
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"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
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"sense": "to criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner",
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"text": "At the same time, a broadsheet entitled Memoirs of the Political Life of Robert Alexander and others was published anonymously but was evidently written by Borthwick because he sent a copy to Henry Cockburn. It was a vituperate attack on Alexander, accusing him of being a ne'er-do-well fraudster.",
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