 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
denunciation
noun: a public act of denouncing [syn: {denouncement}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Denunciation \De*nun'ci*a"tion\, noun [L. denuntiatio, -ciatio.]
1. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [Obs.]
Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage.
--Bp. Hall.
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.
Uttering bold denunciations of ecclesiastical error.
--Motley.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "denunciation":
accusal, accusation, accusing, allegation, allegement, anathema,
anathematizing, arraignment, ban, bill of particulars, blame,
blasphemy, bringing of charges, bringing to book, bulldozing,
castigation, censure, charge, commination, complaint, condemnation,
conviction, count, curse, damnation, death sentence, death warrant,
decrial, delation, denouncement, doom, empty threat, evil eye,
excommunication, excoriation, execration, flaying, foreboding,
fulmination, fustigation, guilty verdict, hex, idle threat,
imminence, impeachment, implication, implied threat, imprecation,
imputation, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation,
intimidation, judgment, lawsuit, laying of charges, malison,
malocchio, menace, pillorying, plaint, promise of harm,
proscription, prosecution, rap, reprehension, reproach,
reprobation, sentence, skinning alive, stricture, suit,
sword of Damocles, taxing, threat, threateningness, threatfulness,
thundering, true bill, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation,
verdict of guilty, warning, whammy
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