reviler

[ ri-vahy-ler ]

noun

1. someone who speaks abusively or contemptuously to or of another person or thing:

   The author said his father was an alcoholic, a self-hating reviler of anyone and everyone who disagreed with him.

Word History and Origins

Origin of reviler¹

revile ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

Example Sentences

That is the ethic of self-emptying love — neither revile the reviler nor allow him to stay in his sin.

From Seattle Times

The grand jury satisfied themselves and their consciences simply by making a report in which they declared that my lecture had "no parallel in the habits of respectable vagabondism" that I was "an arch-blasphemer and reviler of God and religion," and recommended that should I ever attempt to lecture again I should be taught that in Delaware blasphemy is a crime punishable by fine and imprisonment.

From Project Gutenberg

This was more than he felt inclined to stand from any Westerner of his own weight, but it was clear that he could not rebuke his reviler fittingly until he reached the sloop and the veins swelled up on his forehead as he furiously plied the paddle.

From Project Gutenberg

Argue not with such; but some fair morning, when the reviler is most rampant, lead him gently into Mosedale and watch with calm delight while he pants painfully up the pass, trying his utmost to look cool, with the sun, which he has maligned, beating down squarely upon his back and exacting a merciless revenge.

From Project Gutenberg

With child-like meekness, and earnest sincerity, the once contemner and reviler of Christianity testified to me that all his hope for the future was in the great atonement made to reconcile fallen man to his Creator.

From Project Gutenberg