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  • 41detraction — detraction, backbiting, calumny, slander, scandal arecomparable when they denote either the offense of one who defames another or casts aspersions upon him or what is uttered by way of defamation or aspersion. Detraction stresses the injurious… …

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  • 42defamation — noun 1. an abusive attack on a person s character or good name • Syn: ↑aspersion, ↑calumny, ↑slander, ↑denigration • Derivationally related forms: ↑denigrate (for: ↑ …

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  • 43Denis Chicoine — (November 16, 1937 – August 10, 1995) was a Traditionalist Catholic priest who assisted Francis Schuckardt in founding the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen and served as Superior General of the Congregation from 1984 to 1989. Contents 1… …

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  • 44Bibliographie sur Brueghel l'Ancien — Article principal : Pieter Brueghel l Ancien. La bibliographie de Pieter Bruegel (ou Brueghel) l Ancien est indiquée par ordre alphabétique[1]. Les spécialistes reconnus sont indiqués en gras. Sommaire 1 A 2 B …

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  • 45slander — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. scandal, aspersion, defamation, calumny, disparagement. See detraction. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. defamation, calumny, scandal, libel; see lie 1 . v. Syn. vilify, defame, calumniate, asperse, decry,… …

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  • 46Apelles — (Ἀπελλῆς) of Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist ( Naturalis Historia 35.36.79 97 and passim ) rated him superior to preceding and… …

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  • 47Mario Scaramella — (born 23 April 1970[1]) is an Italian lawyer, self styled security consultant and nuclear waste expert[2] who came to international prominence in 2006 in connection with the poisoning of the ex FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko. He served as an… …

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  • 48Abigail Adams: Two Letters — ▪ Primary Source       Although Abigail Adams had little formal education, she was intelligent and broad minded and became a terse and vigorous letter writer. That she was concerned with the growth of the new republic can be seen in her numerous… …

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  • 49Ecclesiastical Courts —     Ecclesiastical Courts     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Courts     I. JUDICIAL POWER IN THE CHURCH     In instituting the Church as a perfect society, distinct from the civil power and entirely independent of it, Christ gave her… …

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  • 50scandal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. disgrace, infamy, shame, humiliation, stigma; defamation, slander, backbiting, calumny; gossip. See disrepute, detraction, information, news. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. shame, disgrace, embarrassment,… …

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