ETYMOLOGY
noun: from Anglo-Norman desclandre, desclaundre, disclaunder, disclaundre (slander, slanderous statement, scandal, public outrage)
verb: from disclander (noun)
EXAMPLE (for vb. 1.)
“… Þis gode men with ioie inov : heore leue of him heo nome,
And þannes heo wenden sone i-nouȝ : to þe court of rome.
Þare neren heo nouȝt faire onder-fonge : for þe bischopes comen bi-fore
And desclaundreden seint thomas : þat he was fals and for-suore.
Ake naþeles þe grace heo hadden : þat to þe pope heo miȝten go.
him-sulue heo tolden in priuete : al seint thomases wo: …”
From: Laud Manuscript, c1300
In The Early South-English Legendary ; or, Lives of Saints
Edited by Carl Horstmann, 1887
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