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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Defamation \Def`a*ma"tion\, n. [OE. diffamacioun, F.
     diffamation. See {Defame}.]
     Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous
     communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously
     injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction;
     calumny; aspersion.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: In modern usage, written defamation bears the title of
           libel, and oral defamation that of slander. --Burrill.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  defamation
       n 1: a malicious attack [syn: {calumny}, {obloquy}, {traducement},
             {hatchet job}]
       2: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name [syn:
           {aspersion}, {calumny}, {slander}, {denigration}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "defamation":
     attack, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, blackening,
     calumny, character assassination, defamation of character,
     defilement, denigration, depreciation, disparagement,
     malicious defamation, muckraking, mudslinging, name-calling,
     revilement, scandal, slander, smear, smear campaign, smear word,
     tale, vilification
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DEFAMATION, tort. The speaking slanderous words of a person so as, de bona 
  fama aliquid detrahere, to hurt his good fame. Vide Slander. 
       2. In the United States, the remedy for defamation is by an action on 
  the case, where the words are slanderous. 
       3. In England, besides the remedy by action, proceedings may be 
  instituted in the ecclesiastical court for redress of the injury. The 
  punishment for defamation, in this court, is payment of costs and penance 
  enjoined at the discretion of the judge. When the slander has been privately 
  uttered, the penance may be ordered to be performed in a private place; when 
  publicly uttered, the sentence must be public, as in the church of the 
  parish of the defamed party, in time of divine service,, and the defamer may 
  be required publicly to pronounce that by such words, naming them, as set 
  forth in the sentence, he had defamed the plaintiff, and, therefore, that he 
  begs pardon, first, of God, and then of the party defamed, for uttering such 
  words. Clerk's Assist. 225; 3 Burn's Eccl. Law, Defamation, pl. 14; 2 Chit. 
  Pr. 471 Cooke on Def. 
  
  

















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