Antonyms for defamer


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dih-feym
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈfeɪm


Definition of defamer

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French defamer (13c., Modern French diffamer), from Medieval Latin defamare, from Latin diffamare "to spread abroad by ill report, make a scandal of," from dis- suggestive of ruination + fama "a report, rumor" (see fame (n.)). Related: Defamed; defaming.
  • As in detractor : noun derogator
  • As in niggler : noun critic
  • As in nitpicker : noun critic
  • As in quibbler : noun critic
  • As in critic : noun faultfinder, detractor
  • As in enemy : noun someone hated or competed against
Example sentences :
  • A thief, debtor, slanderer, or defamer may become the slave of the one he has wronged.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • I defy the ingenuity of man to show that Mr. Hastings is not the defamer of the service.
  • Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke
  • It is not surprising that the eloquent Greek woman thus serves the defamer of her sex.
  • Extract from : « Woman and Socialism » by August Bebel
  • Is the opposite extreme to a defamer, for the one speaks ill falsely, and the other well, and both slander the truth.
  • Extract from : « Microcosmography » by John Earle
  • Far better it was that the husband should prove the defamer of his wife, than that my darling child should prove a profligate.
  • Extract from : « Jane Talbot » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • The courts cannot protect from its venom, and to kill a defamer and a falsifier is not yet adjudged as legalized slaughter.
  • Extract from : « Rosemary and Rue » by Amber
  • Hereafter you will stand in the pillory of history as a defamer—a calumniator of the dead.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll
  • As an index of public sentiment in the community where the defamed and the defamer resided, I will state two facts.
  • Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? » by John B. Remsburg
  • You are a property thief, a receiver of stolen goods, a defamer of character.
  • Extract from : « The Price of the Prairie » by Margaret Hill McCarter

Synonyms for defamer

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