Crossword-Solution: LIBELING 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The charge against Bunyan was, that he had circulated some paper libeling a most respectable widow, a Quakeress, as a witch.

Have you no soul left, after admiring the rebels in your own history, to sympathize with other rebels suffering deeper wrongs? Can you not see deeper into the motives for rebellion than the hireling reporter who is sent to make up a case for the paper of a party? The best men in Ulster, the best Unionists in Ireland will not be grateful to you for libeling their countrymen in your verse.

Shortridge; "you are libeling our sex, and your love of satire makes you as bitter against Popery as old Moodie himself." "It is, at least, no scandal to say that, under her patronage, small sins are easily absolved here, on the performance of certain duties of atonement." "What are the duties of atonement?" "Ave Marias, fasts, and alms.

During my brother's confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libeling and satyr.

Thus the books of Protagoras were by the judges of Areopagus commanded to be burnt, and himself banished the territory for a discourse begun with his confessing not to know "whether there were gods, or whether not." And against defaming, it was agreed that none should be traduced by name, as was the manner of Vetus Comoedia, whereby we may guess how they censured libeling.