Crossword clues for accusation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accusation \Ac`cu*sa"tion\, n. [OF. acusation, F. accusation, L. accusatio, fr. accusare. See Accuse.]
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The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses.
--Shak. -
That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
[They] set up over his head his accusation.
--Matt. xxvii. 37.Syn: Impeachment; crimination; censure; charge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French acusacion or directly from Latin accusationem (nominative accusatio), noun of action from past participle stem of accusare (see accuse).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of accusing. 2 (context legal English) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law. 3 An allegation.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Accusation can refer to:
- The Accusation, a 1951 Italian film
- Criminal accusation
- False accusation
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Usage examples of "accusation".
And even the private schools, traditionally viewed with suspicious dislike by state education officials, were hit by surprise inspections so seldom that the very act of an accreditation team, showing up unannounced at one of them, was tantamount to an accusation of educational hanky-panky.
Before long, several of the afflicted, notably Elizabeth Hubbard, Mary Walcott, and Bethshaa Pope, either yelled accusations at Nurse or fell to the floor in fits.
To all that only your mandate of accusation and allegorical sermons are lacking.
Gervais Mechin, curate-in-charge of the Church of Saint-Pierre in the Market Place at Loudun, certify by these presents, signed by my hand, to relieve my conscience as to a certain report which is being spread abroad, that I had said in support of an accusation brought by Gilles Robert, archpriest, against Urbain Grandier, priest-in-charge of Saint-Pierre, that I had found the said Grandier lying with women and girls in the church of Saint Pierre, the doors being closed.
This libel on our national oath, and this accusation of all our countrymen of being in the daily practice of solemnly asseverating the most enormous falsehood, I fear deserves the notice of a more active Attorney General than that here alluded to.
In a Section A the flat Blamer Mode accusation is hidden away as the presupposition.
The bluster, the excuses, the accusations, the obscenities, the abuse.
Miss Mannering appeared less dismayed by this accusation of boldness than intrigued.
Just because Dickie liked him, Tom thought, Marge had launched her filthy accusations of him at Dickie.
One particular favorite of metaphysicians, trying to divert attention from the accusations of their political foes, was that humanity itself, fleeing the potential created by the Great Metaphysical Breakthrough, had willed The nothings into existence as a form of perverse self-protection.
Nothing authorises such an accusation, for limitation of a sphere is not misappreciation of every legitimate exercise.
At that point, all accusations of malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance were stilled.
Both times the accusations were checked out thoroughly, and Montayne absolved.
She also described the recent French and Spanish incidents which had resulted in accusations against Montayne, accusations receiving publicity in France-Soir and probably elsewhere.
Deliberately, he blocked out the scrabbling and rustling from the overturned trash barrel, the shrill voice with its accusations against the luckless Quishan, and the ever-present rumble from the port .