calumny

• I saw that, from the nature of the case, the true Vicar of Christ must ever to the world seem like Antichrist, and be stigmatized as such, because a resemblance must ever exist between an original and a forgery; and thus the fact of such a calumny was almost one of the notes of the Church. —  Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• The Brinvilliers [8] do not belong to this age; people now use calumny, which is much more effectual for killing people; and it is by calumny that they will work my destruction. [ —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
• against whom this calumny was advanced, as appears from the letters of Peter Desvignes, his Secretary and Chancellor, and as Grotius himself remarks in his observations on Campanella's philosophy. —  The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
• Christ must ever to the world seem like Antichrist, and be stigmatized as such, because a resemblance must ever exist between an original and a forgery; and thus the fact of such a calumny was almost one of the notes of the Church. —  Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• Another calumny is their charging us with opposition to the fathers, -- I mean the writers of the earlier and purer ages, -- as if those writers were abettors of their impiety; whereas, if the contest were to be terminated by this authority, the victory in most parts of the controversy -- to speak in the most modest terms -- would be on our side. —  Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations

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