impugnment

The same scribes and pharisees and people who cried out before the Roman governor, “We have no king but Cæsar,” were ready a few years afterwards to sacrifice their lives rather than admit into Jerusalem a statue of the Emperor Caligula, which seemed to them an impugnment of their religious law.

It would be no impugnment of my honesty that some one bequeathed me an estate,—not that I think the event a likely one.

They have their company of false witnesses ready for any accusation—no impugnment upon their credit being the fact that they live by perjury, and have no other subsistence.

There is no impugnment of his character, no injury that cannot be repaired.

The impugnment of Eli’s motives was evident to all.