Literary notes about Revilement (AI summary)
In literature, the term revilement is employed to convey deep disdain and bitter reproach, often encapsulating both external attacks and internal self-condemnation. Authors deploy it to dramatize moments charged with intense verbal abuse or societal scorn, as when a character’s early sufferings are marinated in solemn revilement [1] or when individuals face unrelenting condemnation from their community [2, 3]. The usage extends to literary constructions that highlight not only the forceful utterances of vitriol—whether directed at others [4, 5] or self-inflicted in reflective melancholy [6, 7]—but also formal invocations against disgrace in a broader, even mythic or protective context [8, 9].
- The very bitterness, the revilement in solemn terms, of my early instructions, had, reacting, defeated itself.
— from San Cristóbal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer - Mahomet's personal magnetism had drawn him irresistibly to the religion he upheld so steadfastly, and in the face of revilement and danger.
— from Mahomet, Founder of Islam by Gladys M. Draycott - During all this time He was subjected to the indignities and revilement of the people.
— from The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá - The captain was at a loss for some word of revilement that might be used against so fine a gentleman without seeming ridiculously misapplied.
— from Captain Ravenshaw; Or, The Maid of Cheapside. A Romance of Elizabethan London by Robert Neilson Stephens - All the terms of revilement came to his lips—rude rascals ( burei na yatsu ), scoundrels ( berabōmé ), vile beasts ( chikushōmé ).
— from Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville - And over at the bunkhouse a man with self-revilement was fumbling with a spray of heart's-ease and looking into vacancy.
— from The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer - In the cold fury of his bitter self-revilement, he actually forgot the woman who had stirred his blood almost as strongly a short half-hour ago.
— from The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer - I mean to close with, dealing out the due Revilement,—in such sort dost thou defend Herakles and his children?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert BrowningCambridge Edition by Robert Browning - Protect us, O god who art great like Mitra, from guile, from revilement, and from disgrace.
— from Sacred Books of the East
