backbiting

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Now, mark you, if Paul will not tolerate banter and suggestive conversation among Christians, what would he say of the shameful backbiting which is heard whenever people meet, though but two individuals?

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  1. The act of slandering the absent; secret calumny. Envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings. 2 Cor. xii. 20.

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  1. Middle English bacbiting, bacbitung; verbal noun of backbite.
 

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