英语词汇“misprision of treason”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

misprision¹ /mis-prizhˈən/

noun

The overlooking or deliberate concealing of the crime of another (law)

Any serious offence or failure of duty (positive or negative, according to whether it is maladministration or mere neglect)

A mistake

ORIGIN: OFr mes- (from L minus less), and LL prēnsiō, -ōnis, from L praehendere to take

misprision of felony, treason, etc

Knowledge of and failure to give information about a crime, treason, etc

treason /trēˈzn/

noun

ORIGIN: Anglo-Fr tresun, OFr traïson (Fr trahison), from traïr (trahir), from L tradere to betray

treaˈsonable adjective

Relating to, consisting of or involving treason

treaˈsonableness noun

treaˈsonably adverb

treaˈsonous adjective

treason felony noun

Any of several offences that ceased to be considered to be a full-blown act of treason in the mid-19c

constructive treason

Anything that may be interpreted as equivalent to actual treason by leading naturally to it

high treason

Any of several offences against the state or the sovereign

misprision of treason

Knowledge of treason and concealment thereof

petty treason (historical)

The murder of a husband by a wife, a master by a servant, etc