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Therefore not every blackening of a good name is backbiting.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

To an American friend He writes:— The worst human quality and the most great sin is backbiting, more especially when it emanates from the tongues of the believers of God.

From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by Esslemont, J. E. (John Ebenezer)