̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈāshən noun
( -s )
Etymology: Latin denuntiation-, denuntiatio, from denuntiatus + -ion-, -io -ion
1. : the act of denouncing : the utterance with which something is denounced
2.
a. archaic : official announcement : proclamation
b. archaic : solemnly pronounced warnings of punishments or imminent evils
c. Scots law : the act of denouncing publicly as a rebel (as by blowing blasts on a horn) preliminary to enforcing the judgment of a court
d. : the act of formally giving information to a public prosecutor that another has committed a crime
e. : the act of inveighing against something or someone as evil
praise of a glorious past that is dead, and denunciations of a decadent present — G.L.Dickinson
f. : the action of giving formal notice of the termination of a treaty
g. : the furnishing of information in an ecclesiastical court by one other than the accuser