If indeed we consider all the frivolous and petulant discourse, the impertinent chattings, the rash censures, the spiteful detractions which are so rife in the world […]

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Sense（3）

(Roman Catholic Church) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.

detractions

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