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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SLANDER , a false See also:

TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale or See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report, See also:

DEFAMATION (from the classical Lat. diffamare, to spread abroad an evil report—the English form in de is taken from the Late Lat. defamare)

defamation . The word is a doublet of " See also:

SCANDAL

scandal " and comes through the O . Fr. esclandre, which, through the earlier forms scandele, escandele, escandre, is derived from See also:

LAT

Lat. scandalum (see further SCANDAL) . In See also:

law, slander is the malicious defamation of a See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person in his reputation, profession or business, by words (see See also:

LIBEL

LIBEL AND . SLANDER) .

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