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What is an aspersion?

What is an aspersion? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An attack on somebody's reputation or good name, often in the phrase to cast aspersions upon….
  2. (obsolete) A sprinkling of holy water.
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We shall say nothing as to the defects or merits of aspersion or sprinkling, immersion or dipping, affusion or pouring.
But of this aspersion he was fully cleared, by the confession of the real father.
Now, that is an aspersion upon Lobengula and Samory in particular.
But think not that I ever had any idea of casting an aspersion on you.
Bishopriggs stopped in the middle of the room, thunder-struck at the aspersion cast on the wine.
Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business.

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