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talebearing en · NOUN

Etymology

From tale + bearing.

Meanings

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

Forms

Synonyms

talemongering (spreading gossip or rumor) · telling tales (spreading gossip or rumor) · rumormongering (spreading gossip or rumor)