Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who denounces; one who publishes or proclaims, especially intended evil; one who threatens.
- noun In civil law, one who lays an information against another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses.
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- noun One who
denounces ,publishes , orproclaims , especially intended or comingevil ; one who threatens or accuses.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have been a consistent, before I go any further, a consistent denunciator of Louis Farrakhan, nobody challenges that.
Barack Obama responds to the criticism over Jeremiah Wright. Ann Althouse 2008
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I have been a consistent, before I go any further, a consistent denunciator of Louis Farrakhan, nobody challenges that.
Obama, Farrakhan, and how Hillary Clinton took the opening and then squandered it. Ann Althouse 2008
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I have been a consistent, before I go any further, a consistent denunciator of Louis Farrakhan, nobody challenges that.
Why is McCain appearing with a raving anti-Catholic? Ann Althouse 2008
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The denunciator of success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall.
Les Miserables 2008
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The denunciator has a menu from which to choose: outright is forthright, blatant has a ring to it, flat is sharp though it is often mistakenly replaced by flat-out, which lacks the disapproving connotation and flagrant lends itself to mispronunciation by stumbling speakers as fragrant.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The denunciator has a menu from which to choose: outright is forthright, blatant has a ring to it, flat is sharp though it is often mistakenly replaced by flat-out, which lacks the disapproving connotation and flagrant lends itself to mispronunciation by stumbling speakers as fragrant.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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She did not hesitate even to tell him of her success in an attempt to befool and seduce Eutyches the denunciator.
Herodias 2003
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Who was the mysterious denunciator who had warned in that abominable manner the daughter of Madame Steno after the lover?
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Half of the fortune of the condemned went to the denunciator, the other half to the State.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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He interfered, it is true, to annul the election of Philip of Suabia and to confirm Otto in the imperial dignity, but he was at pains to point out that his legate was only a denunciator, or declarer of worthiness, not a cognitor or elector.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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