REVILE

v. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach. "And did not she herself revile me there" Shak. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again. 1 Pet. ii. 23.

2.
n.

Reproach; reviling. [Obs.] The gracious Judge, without revile, replied. Milton.


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