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Reviling others is the ultimate demonstration of hate towards oneself.
Cristina Carlino: Five Ways Choosing Love Can Revolutionize Your Life Cristina Carlino 2011
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Reviling "the wealthiest" is most of all a tactic to prevent what would be a Democratic catastrophe.
Who Do You Trust? Daniel Henninger 2011
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Reviling the local CPIM leader, Bandi Ramesh, the police started beating him up black and blue.
Mowing Down Peaceful Agitators Abhay N 2007
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Reply Obj. 1: Reviling is not directed to the end of pride which is excellency.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Reply Obj. 2: Reviling is a more grievous sin than backbiting, in as much as it implies greater contempt of one's neighbor: even as robbery is a graver sin than theft, as stated above (Q. 66, A. 9).
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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_I answer that, _ Reviling denotes the dishonoring of a person, and this happens in two ways: for since honor results from excellence, one person dishonors another, first, by depriving him of the excellence for which he is honored.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Reviling implies some injury inflicted on one's neighbor, since it is
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Reviling, slandering, buffetting and caning were oft his lot.
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Reviling himself with a bitterness that was explicit but impotent, he started off resolutely to seek the aid of the police -- the last extremity.
Nedra George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Reviling is purposely put side by side with murder, bemuse the disposition that inspires the former leads, when further expanded, to the latter; the reviler is a murderer before that bar which looks only at the heart.
The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870
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