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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for denunciation:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
denunciation
    n 1: a public act of denouncing [syn: denunciation,
         denouncement]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Denunciation \De*nun`ci*a"tion\, n. [L. denuntiatio, -ciatio.]
   1. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [Obs.]
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            Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage.
                                                  --Bp. Hall.
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   2. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the
      act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly
      arraigning; arraignment.
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   3. That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil;
      public menace or accusation; arraignment.
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            Uttering bold denunciations of ecclesiastical error.
                                                  --Motley.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
DENUNCIATION, crim. law. This term is used by the civilians to signify the 
act by which au individual informs a public officer, whose duty it is to 
prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed. It differs from a 
complaint. (q.v.) Vide 1 Bro. C. L. 447; 2 Id. 389; Ayl. Parer. 210, Poth. 
Proc. Cr. sect. 2, Sec. 2. 



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