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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A bitter, abusive denunciation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as diatribe
  2. n. A continued discourse or disputation.
  3. n. Specifically.
  4. n. A bitter and violent criticism; a strain of invective.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An abusive, bitter denunciation.
  2. n. A prolonged discourse.
  3. n. A speech or writing which bitterly denounces something.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. thunderous verbal attack

Etymologies

  1. First attested 1581, from Latin diatriba ("learned discussion or discourse"), from Ancient Greek διατριβή (diatribē, "way of spending time, lecture"), from διά (dia, "through") + τρίβω (tribō, "I waste, wear out") (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin diatriba, learned discourse, from Greek diatribē, pastime, lecture, from diatrībein, to consume, wear away : dia-, intensive pref.; see dia- + trībein, to rub; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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