talebearing

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English

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Etymology

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From tale +‎ bearing.

Noun

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talebearing (countable and uncountable, plural talebearings)

  1. The spreading of gossip or rumor.
    • 1973, Taya Zinkin, Weeds grow fast, page 30:
      waiting to be in her presence to burst into the tears with which he delivered endless, and sometimes even untrue, talebearings
    • 1979, Bernhard Häring, Free and Faithful in Christ: General moral theology, page 94:
      The damage done by calumny, detraction, and talebearing can frequently not be repaired.
    • 2003, Avraham Steinberg with Fred Rosner, Encyclopedia of Jewish medical ethics, page 229:
      By talebearing, a person may actually violate seventeen negative Biblical precepts, fourteen positive precepts and incur three curses

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