impugnment
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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
There is no impugnment of his character, no injury that cannot be repaired.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
The statement of these facts involves no impugnment of American urbanity, American wit, American chivalry, or American enterprise.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
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
"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
