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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; a denunciation
  • 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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