libelとは

発音

• enPR: līʹbəl, IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪbəl/
• 韻: -aɪbəl

名詞

libel (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 libels)

1. (countable) A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
2. (uncountable) The act or crime of displaying such a statement publicly.
3. (countable) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
4. (law, countable) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.
   • United States Supreme Court, The Rio Grande, 86 U.S. 178,179 (1873)

     These provisions of law being in force, the steamer Rio Grande, owned, as was alleged, by persons in Mexico, being in the port of Mobile, in the Southern District of Alabama, certain materialmen, on the 26th of November, 1867, filed separate libels against her in the district court for the said district.

5. (countable) A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

   • Wyclif Bible (Matthew v. 31)

     a libel of forsaking [divorcement]

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:slander

動詞

libel (third-person singular simple present libels, present participle (英国用法) libelling or (米国用法) libeling, simple past and past participle (英国用法) libelled or (米国用法) libeled)

1. (transitive) To defame someone, especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.

   He libelled her when he published that.

   • Alexander Pope

     Some wicked wits have libelled all the fair.

2. (law) To proceed against (a ship, goods, etc.) by filing a libel.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:defame

派生語

参考

• defamation
• defame
• slander

アナグラム

• Belli, I'll be, Ibell, Liebl