scandalization

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I'm already reaping the benefits of scandalization with offers to write for some pretty venerable magazines.

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  1. The act of scandalizing, defaming, or disgracing; aspersion; defamation. The Lords of the Council laid hold of one Walmesley, a publican at Islington, and punished him for spreading false reports and “scandalization of my Lord of Shrewsbury.” Athenæum, No. 3192, p. 889.
  2. Scandal; scandalous sin. Let one lyue neuer so wyckedly In abhominable scandalisacion, As longe as he will their church obaye, Not refusynge his tithes duely to paye, They shall make of him no accusacion. Dyaloge betweene a Gentillman and a Husbandman, p. 168. [(Davies.)
  3. Also spelled scandalisation.

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  • You thought the potential for scandalization was high before?
  • I'm already reaping the benefits of scandalization with offers to write for some pretty venerable magazines. —  Marine Corps Moms
  • Bankruptcy, bereavement, scandalization, and eruptive disease so irritating that he had to re-enforce his ten finger-nails with pieces of earthenware to scratch himself withal. —  New Tabernacle Sermons
  • To the infinite scandalization of the Parish -- no one but "Bertrand the —  Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
  • Our grievance is that so many engines of destructiveness and offensiveness should be so largely patronized by smokers, to their own discomfort, the ruination of their tobacco, the scandalization of gentle and simple, and the encouragement of vicious manufactures. —  Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
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  1. Early modern English scandalisacion, from Old French scandalisacion, from scandaliser, scandalize: see scandalize.
 

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