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SCANDAL , disgrace, discredit, shame, caused by the report or knowledge of wrongdoing, hence defamation or gossip, especially malicious or idle; or such action as causes public offence or disrepute. (For the law relating to scandal, more generally termed " defamation" see LIBEL AND SLANDER
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spring of a baited trap; the origin probably being the root seen in Latin scandere, to climb, get up. While the Latin scandalum has given such direct derivatives as Spanish and Portuguese escandalo, Dutch schandaal, Eng. " scandal," &c., it is also the source of thesynonymous " slander
A particular form of defamation was scandalum magnatum. " slander of great
damages could be recovered, even in cases where no action would lie, if the defamation were of an ordinary subject, and that without proof of special
long obsolete, were only abolished in 1887 (Statute
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