asperse
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The hereditary duties of the King's Champion are to "gird himself in complete armor," ride out upon a noble charger, fling down his gauntlet, offer to fight all "liars and traitors" who asperse King Edward.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this threat blazoned, the British note went on to asperse individually and by name five officials of the Soviet Government.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus far we may credit him— but what man of common sense can believe, that Richard went so far as publicly to asperse the honor of his own mother?
From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole
Who dare asperse the sweet sincerity of feminine friendship?
From Marion's Faith. by Charles King
"By Saint Denis, I would not have been the man to asperse their blood thus, in their old halls at Grenada!"
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
During the first nine months of 1923 there were: Births 584,458 Deaths 506,007 Birth rate excess 78,451 The Paris press aspersed U. S. lib erty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Florentius, a priest in the neighboring country, though unworthy to bear that sacred character, moved by a secret jealousy, persecuted the saint, and aspersed his reputation with grievous slanders.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
It was nothing of the sort, Mrs Fyne assured me with some resentment, as though I had aspersed little Fyne’s sanity.
From Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad
"Sciochezza di Napoli" retorts the dealer at Messina or Palermo, vindicating at once his own honour, which seems aspersed, and that of his Trinacrian associates.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
The offender must bathe in the ocean; the kumu then aspersed him with holy water, uttered a prayer, ordered a penalty, an offering to the kuahu, and declared the offender clean.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
He had brought this suit against Le Journal of Paris for libelously aspersing his patriotism as an Alsatian.
From Time Magazine Archive
J. Without unfairly aspersing Homer Cummings, it can be said that the D. o.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am not sure, Charles, whether I ought not to call you out for aspersing the honor of the family.”
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough
A third manifestation is, aspersing a man’s actions with mean censures, intimating that they proceed from wrong motives and principles.
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
Nel didn’t tell you, I suppose, while he was engaged in aspersing my character, that there is a feud of long standing between us which is principally of his making?”
From The Shadow of the Past by F.E. Mills Young
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