Meaning of DENUNCIATION
| Pronunciation: | | di`nunsee'eyshun
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| | Definition: | | [n] a public act of denouncing |
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| | Synonyms: | | denouncement |
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| | See Also: | | broadside, condemnation, curse, damnation, diatribe, excoriation, execration, fulmination, philippic, speech act, tirade | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*nun`ci*a"tion\, n. [L. denuntiatio, -ciatio.]
1. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [Obs.]
Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage.
--Bp. Hall.
2. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the
act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly
arraigning; arraignment.
3. That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil;
public menace or accusation; arraignment.
Uttering bold denunciations of ecclesiastical error.
--Motley.
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| | Related Terms: | | accusal, accusation, accusing, allegation, allegement, anathema, anathematizing, arraignment, ban, bill of particulars, blame, blasphemy, bringing of charges, bringing to book, bulldozing, castigation, censure, charge, commination, complaint, condemnation, conviction, count, curse, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, decrial, delation, denouncement, doom, empty threat, evil eye, excommunication, excoriation, execration, flaying, foreboding, fulmination, fustigation, guilty verdict, hex, idle threat, imminence, impeachment, implication, implied threat, imprecation, imputation, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, intimidation, judgment, lawsuit, laying of charges, malison, malocchio, menace, pillorying, plaint, promise of harm, proscription, prosecution, rap, reprehension, reproach, reprobation, sentence, skinning alive, stricture, suit, sword of Damocles, taxing, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, thundering, true bill, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation, verdict of guilty, warning, whammy |
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