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Definition: Aspersion |
AspersionNoun1. A disparaging remark. 2. The act of defaming. 3. The act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aspersion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
Etymology: Aspersion \As*per"sion\, noun. [Latin expression aspersio, from aspergere: compare to the French expression aspersion.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AspersionSynonyms: calumny (n), defamation (n), slander (n), slur (n), sprinkling (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Detraction | Noun: detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum. |
Malediction | Noun: malediction, malison, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation. |
Nonassemblage Dispersion | Noun: {opp. } dispersion; disjunction; divergence; aspersion; scattering; Verb: dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment; spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction; affusion. waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra; waveson. |
Rite | Seven sacraments, impanation, subpanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance; (atonement); telling of beads, processional; thurification, incense, holy water, aspersion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aspersion |
| Specialty definitions using "aspersion": Aspersions ♦ BAPTISM. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Aspersion" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (aspersion, sprinkle). |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | They vindicated him against the base aspersion. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Brazilian irrigation market uses mainly the aspersion system, which accounts for 80% of the total market, mostly by center pivots. (references) | |
The U.S. share of imported peripherals related to high volume aspersion, mainly center pivots, was 24% of the market in 1999, and 23% for other segments such as small volume aspersion and dripping technologies. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BAPTISM, n. A sacred rite of such efficacy that he who finds himself in heaven without having undergone it will be unhappy forever. It is performed with water in two ways -- by immersion, or plunging, and by aspersion, or sprinkling. But whether the plan of immersion Is better than simple aspersion Let those immersed And those aspersed Decide by the Authorized Version, And by matching their agues tertian. G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aspersion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aspersion" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "aspersion": cast aspersion. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aspersion por riego | 13 |
aspersion por secado | 7 |
aspersion | 6 |
aspersion de por riego sistema | 4 |
aspersion de equipos por portatiles riego | 3 |
aspersion de por portatiles riego sistema | 2 |
aspersion riego | 2 |
aspersion de riego sistemas | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aspersion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spërkatje (damping, douche, splash, splutter, spraying, sprinkling), fjalë të këqija. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نضح (asperse, douche, exudation, exude, ooze, perfusion, pulverization, pulverize, spray, sprinkle, spurt, sweat, transpiration), قذف (accuse of, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, emit, expel, extrude, extrusion, fling, libel, malediction, malign, mud, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt, pelt with, pitch, projection, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate, vomit), تشهير (libel, mud, mudslinging, scandal, slander), طعن (impale, jab, jag, knife, libel, pike, put a knife into smb., put off, recourse, remedy, slander, stab, strike, thrust, thrusting, transfix). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | клевета (backbite, calumny, defamation, libel, scandal, slander, slur, smear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hanobení (calumniation, defamation, vilification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | aspersion, oversprøjtning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aspersio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aspersion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abfällige Bemerkung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κακολογία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "שמצ" (defamation, disgracing, mudslinging, slander, slur, smear, smearing, vilification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rágalom (bat, brick-bat, calumny, libel, slander, smear-word), rágalmazás (calumniation, defamation, libel, mud-slinging, obloquy, slander, vilification), meglocsolás, lelocsolás, befröcskölés (spatter, splatter, splurge), becsmérlés (decrial, defamation, depreciation, derogation, disparagement, vilification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pemfitnahan (blasphemy, calumniation, defamation, libeling, slandering), kata-kata fitnah. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aspersione (sprinkle, sprinkling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | flout (affront, gibe, invective, rebuff, rebuttal, reproach, scorn, slander, snub, stigma, taunt, vituperation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aspersionay aspersão (affusion, sprinkling). (various references) stropiturã (drop, spatter, sprinkle, sprinkling), stropire (splash, sputter), ponegrire. (various references) клевета (aspersions, backbite, calumniation, calumny, defamation, denigration, libel, mudslinging, slander, traducement). (various references) kleveta (calumny, detraction, libel, obloquy, slander, slur, smear). (various references) aspersión (perfusion, sprinkling). (various references) smädelse (abuse, invective, obloquy, opprobrium, vituperation), klander (blame, censure, reprehension, reprobation), förtal (backbiting, blood libel, calumniation, calumny, defamation, denigration, detraction, libel, obloquy, scandal, slander, vilification). (various references) serpme (distribution, perfusion, splash, spreading, sprinkling, strewing), kutsal su serpme, iftira (calumniation, calumny, complaint, defamation, denigration, malediction, obloquy, scandal, slander, smear, vilification), çamur (calumniation, clay, daub, dirt, gook, mire, muck, mud, slime, slob, slosh, slush, soggy, squelch). (various references) ганьблення (vilification, vitiation, vituperation), окроплення (affusion, perfusion, sprinkling), оббризкування, паплюження (disparagement, obloquy). (various references) sự vu khống (calumniation, slander, traducement), sự vảy (perfusion), sự rảy, sự phỉ báng (defamation, denigration, traducement, vilification), sự bôi nhọ (denigration, smear), lời vu khống (calumny), lời nói xấu (defamation, slander, smear). (various references) enllib (libel, slander), difri%ad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aspersion": aspersions. (additional references) | |
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"Aspersion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asherson, aspersiion, aspersio, asperson, aspertion, Espersen, Isparion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aspersion" (pronounced usper"zhun) |
| 6 | -s p er" zh u n | dispersion. |
| 4 | -er" zh u n | aversion, conversion, diversion, excursion, immersion, incursion, inversion, perversion, reversion, submersion, subversion, version. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, allusion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, corrosion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, exclusion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, implosion, incision, inclusion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, invasion, lesion, misprision, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, revision, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, supervision, television, transfusion, vision. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: erasions, personas, responsa, ropiness, senopias, sensoria. | |
-2 letters: arsines, aspires, epinaos, erasion, orpines, paniers, pansies, paresis, parises, parsons, passion, persona, persons, poisers, praises, prisons, prossie, rapines, reasons, sapiens, seniors, senopia, senoras, snipers, soapers, soapier, sonsier, soprani, spinors, spinose, spireas, sprains. | |
-3 letters: anises, aprons, ariose, arisen, arises, arpens, arseno, arsine, arsino, arsons, aspens, aspers, aspire. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: aspersions, patronises, persuasion, pervasions. | |
+2 letters: aepyornises, angiosperms, aponeurosis, overpassing, parsimonies, personalise, personalism, personalist, persuasions, proseminars, proteinases, pyranosides, saponifiers, scorpaenids, senatorship, separations, vasopressin, waitpersons. | |
+3 letters: anisotropies, antistrophes, ceratopsians, chairpersons, conspiracies, desperations, dispensatory, expressional, foremanships, horsemanship, impersonates, misanthropes, narcolepsies, nonpasserine, parishioners, pensionaries, personalised, personalises, personalisms, personalists, personalizes, personalties, personations, preadmission, precessional, processional, professional, reassumption, respirations, senatorships, sonographies, supernations, superstation, vaporishness, vasopressins. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 70 65 72 73 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ... .--. . .-. ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s p e r s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0070 0065 0072 0073 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358582718485758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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