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VERBS 1. to speak evil of, so as to expose to opprobrium; to slander; to calumniate (obsolete) 2. to bring into public disgrace or opprobrium; to bring scandal upon (obsolete) also DESCLAUNDER, DESLAUNDRE, DISCLANDAR, DISKLANDER, DISLAUNDER, DYSCLAUNDER, DYSSCLAUNDER CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY noun: from Anglo-French *desclandre, disclaunder (15th c.) derivative of Old French escla-ndre, earlier escandre, escandle, escandele:—L. scandalum cause of offence verb: Middle English desclandre, from noun, perhaps through an Anglo-French *desclandre-r for Old French esclandrer to slander EXAMPLE From: The Historie of the Arrivall of King Edward IV. in England And the Finall Recoverye of His Kingdomes From Henry VI. A.D. M.CCCC.LXXI (1471) Edited by John Bruce P. 21
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