impugnment
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That would be an outrageous impugnment of the goodness and mercy of God, especially when he has distinctly declared that he does not willingly afflict or grieve the child of man.
From Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by George Tybout Purves
It would be no impugnment of my honesty that some one bequeathed me an estate,—not that I think the event a likely one.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
He has then to undergo the old academic form of the public impugnment of a thesis on some title of the pandects; but this ceremony, called the public examination, has degenerated into a mere form.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
"O-oh!" cried Mrs. Brook, with a drawn-out extravagance of comment that amounted to an impugnment of her taste even by herself.
From The Awkward Age by Henry James
As her vivacity never lessens our impression of her sensibility, so she wears her masculine attire without the slightest impugnment of her delicacy.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
