Bible Dictionaries
Blackmailing

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackmail

(2):

(n.) The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Blackmailing'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/blackmailing.html. 1828.