Definition of "libelling" [libelling]

• Present participle of libel. (verb)

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• "Barbara Bauer has been yapping a lot about people "libelling" her."
• "When inflicted for some popular act, such as libelling a minister, the offender was treated as a hero, but if a man's crime outraged the moral sense of the mob, he was exposed to horrible barbarity."
• "And we all know the common dialect, in which the great masters of this art used to pray for the king, and which may justly pass for only a cleanlier and more refined kind of libelling him in the Lord."