Definition of "revilement" []

• The act of reviling. (noun)

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• "It is but natural that in the face of scepticism which I cannot share I should feel greater faith, that in the face of revilement a sense of the glory of the thing belittled should settle upon me."
• "Yet, even to accomplish this much in iconographic terms, Silas had to solve the problem of our revilement of corporeal decomposition."
• "Our survival depends on human revilement of the decomposing corpse as much as it does the entropy that somehow draws us in to the two stages of death that somehow remain poignantly beautiful to us--the initial departure from life and the ultimate disappearance of all trace of that which once was an animated, vital, and special entity."