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Quotation dates: 1622-1684
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Revilling, vbl. n. Also: -vyl(l)-, -vil-, -vel-. [e.m.E. reuyling a reviling speech (1529), appar. only in pl. till 1795; Revile v.] The action of reviling, in the sense of Revile v. — 1622-6 Bisset II 261/16.
Quhasaevir speikis any approbrious … wordis in reveling or cursing any ane uthir 1650 Misc. Maitl. C. II 483.
The nixt day all the ministeris preiched agaynst thame for not stoning and revyling him 1665 Dumbarton B. Rec. 84.
For … revilling the counsall 1674 Edinb. B. Rec. X 167.
All persones … are prohibite … fra … revylling and scoldeing one with another 1684 Symson Descr. Galloway App. 130.
Deposed … for … reviling his brethren
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