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/dɪnˌənsiˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Denunciation n.

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. (Obs.) "Public... denunciation of banns before marriage."

The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.

That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment. "Uttering bold denunciations of ecclesiastical error."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the mediciner with poisoning, and demanded the customary fine. Mad Said grumbled certain disrespectful expressions about the propriety of divines confining themselves to prayers and the Koran, whilst the Gerad Adan, after listening to the Shaykh's violent denunciation of the Somali doctrine, "Fire, but not shame!" [4] conducted his head-scratcher, and with sly sarcasm declared that he had been Islamized ...

— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton

... brother, amounting almost to awkwardness, vanished with this theme, though she still kept her full gaze always to the front, even in the extreme ardor of her denunciation of ...

— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington

... appropriated from the holdings of from 1000 to 2000 hectares. It is also the Government's intention in Czecho-Slovakia to take in hand such properties as are badly administered, and, by a wise proviso, when a denunciation arrives to the effect, for example, that the proprietor is not using manure and that thus the State is suffering injury, a dozen men, belonging to the various political parties, go down to investigate. ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein

... then that your denunciation can only strike me as, for all its violence, vague and unconvincing. Never had a girl less the appearance of bearing such charges out. You know how I've ...

— Louisa Pallant • Henry James

... though Lloyd George and Mr. Asquith got the major share. On this occasion all the guns were brought to bear on Lloyd George. The insurance tax was unpopular, and nothing that ridicule, covert insult, or open denunciation could achieve was left undone by the Northcliffe papers to smash Lloyd George and his policy. There was plenty of scope for attack. The Insurance Act was undoubtedly hurriedly conceived, and its complexities incompletely dovetailed. Whatever the merit of the conception, there ...

— Lloyd George - The Man and His Story • Frank Dilnot

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