asperse

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To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach.

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I would give my life rather than hear her aspersed by a calumnious word--give my life, aye, readily, willingly.'

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Let no one write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dares now to vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.

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The King's personal courage Pitt had publicly and wantonly aspersed; Hanover and the Hanoverians he had held up to every form of public hatred and contempt.

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According to these principles, our doctors in their quarrels, injure, defame, calumniate, and asperse, and when they have the power, persecute and exterminate each other.

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