accusation
/ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/ noun B2- The act of accusing.
- A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
- An allegation. · ungrounded accusations· a blind accusation
Plural accusations
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These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything.
--With respect to that other, more weighty accusation, of having injured Mr.
It was gratitude;--gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.
For though your accusations were ill-founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof.
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