Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of denouncing; the declaration of a menace, or of evil; denunciation.
- noun In Mexican and Spanish mining-law, application to the authorities for the grant of the right to work a mine, either on the ground of new discovery, or on the ground of forfeiture of the rights of a former owner, through abandonment or contravention of the mining-law. See
denounce , 5.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An act of
denouncing ; adenunciation - noun A solemn or formal
declaration
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a public act of denouncing
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Examples
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- Pakistani relationship over the drones has only gotten stronger, even if the price of quiet cooperation is public denouncement from the Pakistani government.
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Donald Boström's report on the IDF harvesting organs of Palestinian youth caused massive outrage in Israel but no official denouncement from the Swedish government.
unknown title 2009
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So the cost of the strikes, politically, is denouncement from a Pakistani government that can’t tolerate a public acknowledgment of its complicity.
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It's the walkback scheme, where he lets these outside groups walk out these slurs/smears against Barack Obama, and then those slurs/smears are walked back with a 'denouncement' from McCain, but once they've been walked out and back, they still leave that behind in the public discourse.
Swift Boat Vet Operative Vows To "Attack Obama Viciously" 2009
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The fact that this "denouncement" of the Republicans is public while the announcement of "support" was on a password-protected site might be a point of argument that they would, in fact, rather have a Republican in office.
Al Qaeda Leader Calls For Humiliation Of Republicans -- Trying To Help McCain Win? 2009
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*By the way...my "denouncement" was in response to Fen using the term about 3,000 times over the past five days...and had absolutely nothing to do with YOU.
"Michael Mukasey... is absolutely correct... that the issue of 'waterboarding' cannot be decided in the abstract." Ann Althouse 2007
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Corchado, on his return, gathered up some of the scoria and carried it to Puebla, when it was found to contain so large a percentage of sulphur as to warrant its 'denouncement' as a sulphur-mine.
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"denouncement" or claim, which entails certain legal formalities and the annual payment of a tax.
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919
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“They call me a wolf in a monk’s robe — if they feel happy with that kind of denouncement, it’s okay, no problem,” he said.
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“They call me a wolf in a monk’s robe — if they feel happy with that kind of denouncement, it’s okay, no problem,” he said.
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