denunciation

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act or an instance of denouncing, especially a public condemnation or censure.
• noun The reporting of a person to the authorities for possible criminal prosecution.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of denouncing a treaty.
• noun The act of denouncing or announcing; announcement; publication; proclamation; annunciation: as, a faithful denunciation of the gospel.
• noun Solemn or formal declaration accompanied with a menace: a declaration of intended evil; proclamation of a threat; a public menace: as, a denunciation of war or of wrath.
• noun In Scots law, the act by which a person who has disobeyed the charge given on letters of horning is outlawed or proclaimed a rebel.
• noun In civil law, accusation against one of a crime before a public prosecuting officer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.
• noun The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
• noun That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.
• noun The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
• noun That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a public act of denouncing