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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aspersion \As*per"sion\, n. [L. aspersio, fr aspergere: cf F.
aspersion.]
1. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense
Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. --Jer.
Taylor.
2. The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which
tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with
foul water; calumny.
Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast
wholesale aspersions on the entire body of
professional teachers. --Grote.
Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue.
--Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
aspersion
n 1: a disparaging remark [syn: {slur}]
2: the act of defaming [syn: {calumny}, {slander}, {defamation}]
3: the act of sprinkling water in baptism rare [syn: {sprinkling}]
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