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calumniations

calumniations is the plural of calumniation.

Meaning of calumniation

Noun

calumniation (countable and uncountable, plural calumniations)

  1. A false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone.
    • To all those causes of calumniation, may be added the conduct of Darnley, unlearned, unmannered, untoward, as he was, that gave too much cause for censoriousness to represent, and scandal to propagate.1822, George Chalmers, The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots: Drawn from the State Papers, with Subsidiary Memoirs

Questions about calumniations

What is calumniations the plural of?
Calumniations is the plural of calumniation.

Words near calumniations in the dictionary

  1. calumniate
  2. calumniated
  3. calumniates
  4. calumniating
  5. calumniation
  6. calumniations
  7. calumniative
  8. calumniator
  9. calumniators
  10. calumniatory
  11. calumnied

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