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De - Pt| English Dictionary: backbite | by the DICT Development Group |
| 4 results for backbite | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Backbite \Back"bite`\, v. i. [2nd back, n., + bite] To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). --Spenser. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Backbite \Back"bite`\, v. i. To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. --Shak. | |
| From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
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Backbite In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent. | |
