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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denunciation \De*nun`ci*a"tion\, n. [L. denuntiatio, -ciatio.]
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Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [Obs.]
Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage.
--Bp. Hall. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
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That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.
Uttering bold denunciations of ecclesiastical error.
--Motley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "act of declaring or stating something," from Latin denuntiationem (nominative denuntiatio), noun of action from past participle stem of denuntiare (see denounce). Meaning "a charge" is mid-15c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. 2 The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment. 3 That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.
WordNet
n. a public act of denouncing [syn: denouncement]
Wikipedia
Denunciation in the context of sentencing philosophy is the disapproval of an act by society that is expressed by the imposition of a sentence. This is one of the purposes of sentencing, as well as a possible justification for the imposition of a sentence.
Denunciation arguments can be used to justify more serious sentences than are required by the principles of retribution and deterrence.
Denunciation arguments can also be used to justify the existence of laws which are never enforced; they stand as statements of a society's values rather than working parts of a criminal justice system.
Category:Criminal law
Denunciation (from Latin denuntiare, to denounce) is an open public accusation or reporting a person or a group of persons to public authorities, often done anonymously for low political or personal motives, on which the informant has a personal interest or hopes to gain personal benefits.
A person who denounces can be called denouncer, informer, informant or by various legal and slang terms, such as snitch.
Denunciation may refer to:
- Denunciation, the action of reporting a person to authorities
- The act of denouncing, a public condemnation
- Denunciation (international law), in the context of a treaty, denunciation or abrogation is the announcement of its termination.
- Denunciation (penology), in sentencing philosophy the disapproval of an act by society that is expressed by the imposition of a sentence
Usage examples of "denunciation".
But in the time that had passed since Barere suggested he do that, the political climate had abruptly changed, and seeing him working through the night on the speech in the offices of the Committee, Billaud and Carnot knew that, far from an anodyne statement on unity, they could expect a tirade of dangerous denunciation.
Strange shouts of denunciation blended with the harsh braying of horns, and the clang and clash of cymbals and tambours sounded in every quarter of the city.
Stenhouse relieves me of any anxiety I had felt in regard to having my swan-like throat cut by the Danites, but thinks my wholesale denunciation of a people I had never seen was rather hasty.
Calling upon me one day in Cambridge, we compared views, and although he told me of certain experiments he proposed to make the next day, he was emphatic in his denunciation of the atrocities which over and over again were repeated in physiological laboratories throughout the land.
I am led to this surmise by the energetic measures taken by the hotelkeepers to prevent such domestic washings, and by the denunciations which in every hotel are pasted up in every room against the practice.
The Press, the Pulpit, and the Lyceum, with rare and brave exceptions, met the formidable array of Facts with which the work bristled, by sciolistic criticisms, bigoted denunciations, or timid, faint praise.
When occurring account of which the robbery denunciation had not been more than an infantile treta, the nerves of Ted did not resist.
The object of this terrible denunciation of the wrath of the Almighty was a wretched little object indeed, just like a white rabbit--with pink eyes, a grey face and head, poor thin legs, a long tail-coat that came nearly to his heels, an awfully ragged pair of trowsers, and a liver charred with whisky.
There are plenty of denunciations of Rush for being inaccurate, but it turns out, liberals lie even when accusing conservatives of lying.
Thackeray, the widow, to whom Stevens had paid two visits or more since he had been in the village, and who had her own reasons for doubting that Margaret Cooper had really obtained any advantages in the general struggle to find favor in the sight of this handsome man of God--was loud in her eulogy upon the latter, and equally unsparing in her denunciations of the village lad who meditated so foul a crime as the extinguishing so blessed a light.
The sister said little, and sorrowfully walked on in silence homeward, listening to the fierce denunciations of Ned Hinkley.
All the stuff about Fascist atrocities, denunciations of Chamberlain, etc.
The crucial speech, with its carefully crafted threats, accusations and denunciations, was ready.
Nicholas, Sluys, and Axel, against whom denunciations of heresy or of suspected disloyalty to Philip had been laid.
Spanish Inquisition one-half of the nation was set to spy upon the other, that wooden box, with its slit, is put there ready to receive denunciations from one mand against another.