Word Meanings - VILIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse. South.

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• SOUTHWEST
  The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• VILIFY
  1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton. 2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• SOUTHNESS
  A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
• SOUTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
• SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
  Toward the southwest.
• DEFAMOUS
  Defamatory.
• SOUTHER
  A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south.
• SOUTHERLINESS
  The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south.
• SOUTHERNWOOD
  A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• ABUSE
  1. Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language. Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty,
• EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
  Georgia; -- a nickname.
• SOUTHEAST
  The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.
• SELF-ABUSE
  1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.