All 3 Uses of
aspersion
in
David Copperfield
- Peggotty seemed to take this aspersion very much to heart, I thought.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- I have exposed one whom I hold in my heart, to trials and aspersions — I call them aspersions, even to have been conceived in anybody's inmost mind — of which she never, but for me, could have been the object.'†
Chpt 40-42
- I have exposed one whom I hold in my heart, to trials and aspersions — I call them aspersions, even to have been conceived in anybody's inmost mind — of which she never, but for me, could have been the object.'†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(aspersion) a verbal attack on a person's character or good name