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libeller

[lahy-buh-ler]

noun

a person who libels; a person who publishes a libel assailing another.

Also, especially British, li·bel·ler.

Origin:
1580–90; libel + -er¹

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libel (ˈlaɪb^əl)

—n
1.	law
	a. the publication of defamatory matter in permanent form, as by a written or printed statement, picture, etc
	b. the act of publishing such matter
2.	any defamatory or unflattering representation or statement
3.	ecclesiastical law a claimant's written statement of claim
4.	Scots law the formal statement of a charge

—vb , -bels, -belling, -belled, -bels, -beling, -beled
5.	law to make or publish a defamatory statement or representation about (a person)
6.	to misrepresent injuriously
7.	ecclesiastical law to bring an action against (a person) in the ecclesiastical courts

[C13 (in the sense: written statement), hence C14 legal sense: a plaintiff's statement, via Old French from Latin libellus a little book, from liber a book]

'libeller

—n

'libelist

—n

'libellous

—*adj*

'libelous

—*adj*

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