Libel and slander

Number of relevant publications in EEBO-TCP: 1
Navigate to the catalog to search for the relevant publications associated with this this referencing entity.



Textual Features and Statistics

Nota Bene: QP stands for "quotation/paraphrase." A "unit" stands for a segment produced by EEPS' segmentation unit or an individual marginal note. Adjacent references are those that are located in the same or adjacent segment or note. Chapter-level citations are relevant if the chapter matches that of the query. For book-level queries, all references to the same Bible book are relevant. A "Latin Bible QP" is a quotation or paraphrase of any verse from a Bible that follows the Latin Vulgate tradition: the Vulgate, Douay-Rheims Version, the ODRV, and Wycliffe's version.
Feature Description In-Text Marginal
cited Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent citation 10.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 8.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 77.6% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 15.7% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -inf%
near_quotations Percentage of units that have high lexical similarity with their Bible verse predictions (any type of score greater than the mean + standard deviation of that score type) 10.3% -inf%



Quotations and Paraphrases

Rather than examine the frequency or proportion of references, it is far more useful to determine which references are most prominent for a citing entity. The visualizations below show the most prominent scriptural references within all publications per year. Prominence, displayed as the value below each label, is measured using the metric of Outgoing Relative Citational Prominence (ORCP) proposed by Wahle et al. (2023). In this case, a positive prominence value for a reference R in a given year means that R constitutes a greater percentage of all the references cited by publications in that year than the average citation percentage of R per year. A negative value indicates that a given reference constitutes a proportion lesser than average. A value of negative infinity means that the query reference does not occur in the citation or QP of a citing entity. A value of "%" (without any numeral value) means that there are no citations or QP corresponding to the query reference.

For quotational prominence, only the predictions with the highest cosine similarity scores for each subsegmented or whole unit of a segment or note are included for consideration. The average quotational prominence for a citing entity is the mean of the prominence percentage points for all references R_ALL that are relevant to the query reference such that each reference R in R_ALL has the highest cosine similarity score with a part or the whole of its covering body segment or marginal note. The percentages of top predictions from each Bible version are displayed in a table below.

For citational prominence, only pluasible scriptural citations and ones where the original phrase does not begin with a lowercase word are included for consideration. A scriptural citation is plausible if its numbering exists in any of the Bibles considered by this project. There are over 76 thousand such excluded candidates out of 1.2 million parsed citational units in total. Each of the four side-by-side tables below also have associated diversity and evenness scores; Simpson's Diversity Index ranges from 0 to 1 such that a higher score indicates a greater species diversity. Likewise, the Shannon Index indicates more evenness in the distribution of individuals in a group when its value approaches 1.


Diversity: 0.88
Evenness: 0.985
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 15.279
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 6.337
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.49
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.225
New Testament (Tyndale) 0.219
New Testament (Geneva) -0.945
New Testament (ODRV) -1.032
Old Testament (AKJV) -1.86
New Testament (AKJV) -2.058
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.991
Book Prominence
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 7.722
Proverbs (AKJV) 6.925
Tobit (Douay-Rheims) 4.091
James (Tyndale) 3.927
Leviticus (AKJV) 3.877
James (Geneva) 3.764
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 3.762
Exodus (Geneva) 3.744
James (ODRV) 3.73
Acts (Geneva) 3.637
Revelation (AKJV) 3.582
James (AKJV) 3.534
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 3.459
John (Geneva) 3.31
Luke (ODRV) 3.231
Proverbs (Geneva) 3.219
Romans (ODRV) 3.015
John (AKJV) 3.007
Matthew (AKJV) 2.687
Psalms (Geneva) 2.492
Romans (AKJV) 2.475
Psalms (AKJV) 1.601
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 28 (AKJV) 5.699
Proverbs 17 (AKJV) 5.662
Proverbs 16 (AKJV) 5.602
Tobit 4 (Douay-Rheims) 2.847
Psalms 101 (Geneva) 2.844
Acts 12 (Geneva) 2.843
Proverbs 22 (Geneva) 2.84
Exodus 22 (Geneva) 2.84
Psalms 15 (AKJV) 2.833
Ecclesiasticus 28 (Douay-Rheims) 2.833
Psalms 35 (AKJV) 2.831
Proverbs 6 (Geneva) 2.83
Psalms 120 (AKJV) 2.826
Ecclesiastes 10 (Douay-Rheims) 2.825
James 3 (Tyndale) 2.824
Psalms 69 (AKJV) 2.822
John 7 (Geneva) 2.822
Psalms 101 (AKJV) 2.818
Proverbs 6 (AKJV) 2.807
Proverbs 16 (Geneva) 2.804
Luke 6 (ODRV) 2.802
Leviticus 19 (AKJV) 2.799
James 3 (ODRV) 2.794
Psalms 50 (AKJV) 2.794
Proverbs 25 (AKJV) 2.791
James 3 (Geneva) 2.785
Revelation 22 (AKJV) 2.782
John 7 (AKJV) 2.778
Romans 1 (ODRV) 2.774
James 3 (AKJV) 2.762
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 2.726
Romans 14 (AKJV) 2.702
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.986
Verse Prominence
Psalms 101.5 (AKJV) 5.765
Proverbs 16.27 (AKJV) 3.845
James 3.7 (AKJV) 3.845
Proverbs 17.4 (AKJV) 3.845
Ecclesiasticus 28.18 (AKJV) 3.841
Matthew 7.2 (AKJV) 3.833
Ecclesiasticus 28.19 (AKJV) 1.923
Psalms 69.19 (AKJV) 1.923
Psalms 101.4 (Geneva) 1.922
Proverbs 22.1 (Geneva) 1.922
James 3.5 (ODRV) 1.922
James 3.6 (ODRV) 1.922
Proverbs 25.18 (AKJV) 1.922
Ecclesiasticus 28.24 (Douay-Rheims) 1.922
Proverbs 6.16 (Geneva) 1.922
Proverbs 6.17 (AKJV) 1.922
Proverbs 6.18 (Geneva) 1.922
Leviticus 19.16 (AKJV) 1.922
Matthew 7.1 (AKJV) 1.922
Tobit 4.16 (Douay-Rheims) 1.921
Psalms 35.11 (AKJV) 1.921
James 3.8 (Tyndale) 1.921
Ecclesiasticus 28.21 (AKJV) 1.921
Psalms 120.4 (AKJV) 1.921
Psalms 50.19 (AKJV) 1.921
Psalms 50.20 (AKJV) 1.921
Revelation 22.15 (AKJV) 1.921
Proverbs 16.16 (Geneva) 1.92
Psalms 120.2 (AKJV) 1.92
Proverbs 6.19 (AKJV) 1.919
Acts 12.22 (Geneva) 1.919
Romans 14.16 (AKJV) 1.919
James 3.6 (AKJV) 1.917
Romans 1.28 (ODRV) 1.917
Exodus 22.28 (Geneva) 1.917
Psalms 15.3 (AKJV) 1.916
Psalms 50.21 (AKJV) 1.916
Psalms 101.7 (AKJV) 1.915
John 7.24 (AKJV) 1.914
John 7.24 (Geneva) 1.914
Luke 6.31 (ODRV) 1.913
James 3.6 (Geneva) 1.913
Ecclesiastes 10.20 (Douay-Rheims) 1.91
Psalms 15.1 (AKJV) 1.907
James 3.16 (AKJV) 1.896
Segment No., Location Verse & Version Verse Text Text Is a Partial Textual Segment/Note Adjacent References Cosine Similarity Score Cross Encoder Score Okapi BM25 Score



Citations
i
The index of citation indicates its position within the text of the segment or a particular note of the segment. For example, if 'Note 0' (i.e., the first note) of this segment has three citations, the citation with index 0 is its first citation, inclusive of all its parsed components.

Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.995
New Testament 2.093
Diversity: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Leviticus 9.014
Ecclesiastes 8.053
Exodus 7.892
Revelation 7.723
2 Corinthians 7.604
Proverbs 7.053
John 6.93
Romans 6.269
Matthew 6.171
Psalms 4.966
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 35 5.838
Psalms 101 5.809
Psalms 69 5.804
Psalms 15 5.801
Proverbs 17 5.798
Proverbs 6 5.791
Proverbs 25 5.78
Leviticus 19 5.774
Exodus 22 5.764
John 7 5.749
Revelation 22 5.727
2 Corinthians 12 5.722
Ecclesiastes 10 5.7
Proverbs 16 5.699
Psalms 50 5.675
Matthew 7 5.554
Romans 1 5.462
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 69.19 4.76
Proverbs 17.4 4.76
Psalms 35.12 4.759
Psalms 69.20 4.759
2 Corinthians 12.20 4.759
Psalms 35.11 4.758
Proverbs 16.27 4.758
Psalms 50.19 4.758
Leviticus 19.16 4.758
John 7.24 4.758
Proverbs 6.16 4.757
Psalms 101.5 4.756
Proverbs 25.18 4.756
Psalms 15.3 4.755
Matthew 7.2 4.753
Romans 1.29 4.751
Romans 1.30 4.75
Matthew 7.1 4.749
Revelation 22.15 4.748
Ecclesiastes 10.20 4.711
Exodus 22.28 4.702
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase