different between defamation vs reviling

English

From Old French diffamacion (French diffamation), from Latin diff?m?ti?.

defamation (countable and uncountable, plural defamations)

The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.

reviling

reviling (plural revilings)

reproach; abuse; vilification
- Neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
- 1825, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape: An Historical Tale (page 205)
  The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, […]

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