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denunciation /dɪˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1Public condemnation of someone or something: denunciation of his reckless methods [count noun]: a denunciation of the bombing...- Litigation, public denunciations, and even bribery proved fruitless.
- They issued the immediate denunciations and condemnations, even called them idiots and monsters.
- Responding to this personal attack, Paul's comments are a sarcastic rebuttal of the denunciations of his victims.
1.1The action of informing against someone.Even after Nicholas ordered that false denunciations should be punished, the flood of accusations continued....- In addition to self-denunciation, they wallowed in orgies of accusation against others.
- She wrote out carefully and with a steady hand that denunciation of Citizen-Deputy Déroulède which has become an historical document, and is preserved in the chronicles of France.
Derivatives denunciator /dɪˈnʌnsɪeɪtə / noun ...- Usually the denunciator is not strong himself, otherwise he would not find time for condemnation.
- The artist exposes himself within his work as both a denunciator and a manipulator of the media.
- No great poet has ever forgotten his mission as a prophet, the denunciator of evil and upholder of virtue.
denunciatory /dɪˈnʌnsɪət(ə)ri / adjective ...- If I forgot anybody, send me a denunciatory e-mail.
- This denunciatory zeal has not jeopardized historical vision - if anything, it has inspired some of the finest work of a generation.
- European newspapers published denunciatory editorials by writers who had never set foot on any mountain, let alone the Matterhorn.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin denuntiatio(n-), from the verb denuntiare (see denounce). The original sense was 'public announcement', also 'formal accusation'; the main sense dates from the mid 19th century. |