Crossword clues for denounce
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denounce \De*nounce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Denounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Denouncing.] [F. d['e]noncer, OF. denoncier, fr. L. denuntiare, denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a messenger, message. See Nuncio, and cf. Denunciate.]
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To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil). [Obs.]
Denouncing wrath to come.
--Milton.I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish.
--Deut. xxx. 18. -
To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.
His look denounced desperate.
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To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Denounced for a heretic.
--Sir T. More.To denounce the immoralities of Julius C[ae]sar.
--Brougham.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "announce," from Old French denoncier (12c., Modern French dénoncer), from Latin denuntiare "to announce, proclaim; denounce, menace; command, order," from de- "down" + nuntiare "proclaim, announce," from nuntius "messenger" (see nuncio). Negative sense in English via meaning "to declare or proclaim" something as cursed, excommunicated, forgiven, removed from office. Related: Denounced; denouncing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare. 2 (context transitive English) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame. 3 (context transitive English) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse. 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of. 5 (context transitive English) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
WordNet
v. speak out against; "He denounced the Nazis"
to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, mark]
announce the termination of, as of treaties
give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag]
Usage examples of "denounce".
King as essential to restoring peace, even after Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, Adams had strongly denounced any such step.
Modern thought, then, will contest even its own metaphysical impulses, and show that reflections upon life, labour, and language, in so far as they have value as analytics of finitude, express the end of metaphysics: the philosophy of life denounces metaphysics as a veil of illusion, that of labour denounces it as an alienated form of thought and an ideology, that of language as a cultural episode.
He resisted every effort to latch him to the tobacco teat and missed no opportunity to denounce his antismoking compatriots for the bunch of clowns they were.
There are those who denounce us openly to their friends, and yet whisper to us softly that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object.
After serving in his youth as a samurai retainer, Toju denounced the rigidities of such service and retired at the early age of twenty-six to a life of study and contemplation at his birthplace on Lake Biwa in Omi Province.
Europe, and was vehemently denounced by the theologians of Paris and Louvain, by the Spanish friars, by Archbishop Lee, by Zuniga, the Count of Carpi, and especially by the very learned Steuchus of Gubbio.
Soon after their seizure of power, the Bolsheviks unleashed a campaign of mass terror, encouraging the workers and the peasants to denounce their neighbours to Revolutionary Tribunals and the local Cheka, or political police.
I have this friend who lives in Chelyabinsk, and one day, for no reason at all, someone denounced him as a spy, and this accusation stuck to him so fiercely it was almost impossible to shake it off.
The resolutions of each of these two conventions denounced the action and policy of the Abolition party, as subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their tendency.
Haughton of the medical school in Dublin, denounced the experiments at the time they were made as unjustifiably cruel.
It would take only a few seconds for the two to denounce the masquerade, only a little longer to kill the three and put the Flenser members aboard a more manageable pack.
Although intellectuals may shun it and some people may denounce it as neofascist, Soka Gakkai is one of the greatest mass movements in Japanese history.
Are you not the same Jilseponie who would have given her life before denouncing her principles in the face of the demon-possessed Markwart?
Young Irelanders, and most of the Old Irelanders, were exasperated, and in their speeches and newspapers denounced Lamartine as the enemy of liberty, the sycophant of England, and the incubus of the French provisional government.
To his following, he was known as Saint Philip, though he wore shabby robes and denounced the acquisition of wealth for the church, which many of the Josephites had insisted upon.