'Backbite' definitions:
Definition of 'Backbite'
From: GCIDE
- Backbite \Back"bite`\, v. t. [2d back, n. + bite.] To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Backbite'
From: GCIDE
- Backbite \Back"bite`\, v. i. To censure or revile the absent. [1913 Webster]
- They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Backbite'
From: Easton
- Backbite In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.