What is secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman called?
backbiting — Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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