Lexicographical Neighbors of Revilings
Literary usage of Revilings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1908)
"... which they had been taught for some Time past, with bitter personal revilings
against such as they found ready to withstand their Fury. ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"... and revilings. — Hacket, Life of If'illiams, II. 203. To pride, dear brother,
in greatness is a pompous folly . ..."
3. Isaiah: a New Translation: With a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes by Robert Lowth (1834)
"... 8 For the moth shall consume them, like a garment ; And the worm shall eat
them, like wool: Neither be ye borne down by their revilings. ..."
4. Two Prize Essays on Juvenile Delinquency by Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis (1853)
"... and revilings from the jealousy of the boys and girls, and" but we forbear,
for no work intended for general circulation may be polluted by what may be ..."
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