Chide vs Vilify - What's the difference?
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To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
(obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
(ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
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To say defamatory things about someone or something.
To belittle through speech; to put down.
Chide is a related term of vilify.
In lang=en terms the difference between chide and vilify
is that chide is to admonish in blame; to reproach angrily while vilify is to belittle through speech; to put down.As verbs the difference between chide and vilify
is that chide is to admonish in blame; to reproach angrily while vilify is to say defamatory things about someone or something.chide
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Verb
- 1591' ''And yet I was last '''chidden for being too slow.'' — Shakespeare, ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona , .
- 1598' ''If the scorn of your bright eyne / Have power to raise such love in mine, / Alack, in me what strange effect / Would they work in mild aspect? / Whiles you '''chid me, I did love'' — Shakespeare, ''As You Like It , .
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- 1611' ''And Jacob was wroth, and '''chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? — Genesis 31:36 KJV.
- As doth a rock against the chiding flood.
- the sea that chides the banks of England
