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Webster 1913 Edition

Backbiting

Back′bitˊing

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Noun.

Secret slander; detraction.

Backbiting

, and bearing of false witness.

Piers Plowman.

Webster 1828 Edition

Backbiting

BACK'BITING

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Noun.

The act of slandering the absent; secret calumny. 2Cor.xii.