Definition of "denunciation" []

• The act or an instance of denouncing, especially a public condemnation or censure. (noun)
• The act of accusing another of a crime before a public prosecutor. (noun)

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• "But to dare to ask the question brought certain denunciation from the neo-conservative political power grid: Only a traitorous, subversive, unpatriotic, flag-burning, communist America-hater would question the virtue of a U.S. military venture."
• "The term denunciation is also applied to matters connected with the Sacrament of Matrimony (see BANNS)."
• "That mysterious chest, to which you tell me so terrible a denunciation is annexed, shall be preserved sacred as the relics of St.Fillan."