All 6 Uses of
calumny
in
Middlemarch
- He would take a great deal of pains about apprenticing Tegg the shoemaker's son, and he would watch over Tegg's church-going; he would defend Mrs. Strype the washerwoman against Stubbs's unjust exaction on the score of her drying-ground, and he would himself-scrutinize a calumny against Mrs. Strype.†
Chpt 2
- He must make himself proof against calumny.†
Chpt 4 *
- But how will you make yourself proof against calumny?†
Chpt 4
- What I mean by being proof against calumny is being able to point to the fact as a contradiction.†
Chpt 4
- Lydgate would understand that if his friends hear a calumny about him their first wish must be to justify him.†
Chpt 8
- He would not retreat before calumny, as if he submitted to it.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
-
(calumny) false accusation against a person