2. Noun. (plural of backbite) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backbites
1. backbite [v] - See also: backbite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backbites
Literary usage of Backbites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1893)
"Jj :) [or rather] the first and second are intensive epithets (TA) [but the third
is not intensive] : or one who backbites his brother; as also *jCA: (Lth, ..."
2. A Gift for Muslim Women = by Muḥammad ʻĀshiq Ilāhī (2001)
"... and Namam the scholars hold that Namam is the person who is present among the
people and then after leaving them, backbites against them and the ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... and Sir Benjamin backbites of society. The Violette, they began to whisper,
was a daughter of Lord Burlington, by a Florentine of rank ; and when, ..."
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