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vilification

[vil-uh-fi-key-shuhn]

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noun

the act of defaming or speaking ill of someone or something.
Senior bishops are prepared to atone for the vilification their predecessors heaped on Darwin in the 1860s, when he put forward his theory of evolution.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of vilification¹

First recorded in 1600–10; equivalent to vili(fy) ( def. ) + -fication ( def. )

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But some say the vilification of developers is misplaced.

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Or, more specifically, the scapegoating and vilification of immigrants that prefigured Trump and his “poisoning the blood of our country” Sturm und Drang.

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Since then, there have been more than a dozen reports of Kashmiri vendors and students in Indian cities facing harassment, vilification and threats from right-wing groups - but also from their own classmates, customers and neighbours.

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Chrastka agrees, tracing conservatives’ library vilification back to the classic dog whistles of race and gender, with book bans serving as a proxy for attacking those populations.

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�� does not help, in any way, is the vilification of people who do not have children.

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