denunciation
/dɪˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃən/ noun C2- Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.
- The act of denouncing; an accusation made in public
- An open declaration of personal fault.
- That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.
- The announcement of termination (of a treaty).
Plural denunciations
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“Oh, sire,” replied the minister, “we have no occasion to invent any; every day our desks are loaded with most circumstantial denunciations, coming from hosts of people who hope for some return for services which they seek to render, but cannot; they trust to fortune, and rely upon some unexpected event in some way to justify their predictions.”
What matters really, not only to me, but to officers of justice and the king, is that an innocent man should languish in prison, the victim of an infamous denunciation, to die here cursing his executioners.”
“It was Danglars who wrote the denunciation with his left hand, that his writing might not be recognized, and Fernand who put it in the post.”
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