DENUNCIATION


Meaning of DENUNCIATION in English

 ̷ ̷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

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.