denouncement
(dɪˈnaʊnsmənt)
[a. obs. F. denoncement ‘a denouncing’ (Cotgr.), f. dénoncer: see -ment.]
1. The action of denouncing; denunciation; † declaration; † announcement (of evil); public accusation or expression of condemnation.
| 1544 Bale Chron. Sir J. Oldcastell in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 272 At the laufull denouncement and request of our vniuersall clergye..we proceeded against him [Oldcastell]. 1641 Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. 51 This terrible denouncement. 1646 Sir. T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. ii. 6 Upon the denouncement of his curse. 1836 New Monthly Mag. XLVII. 94 Of the vengeance that overtook criminals of this sort, and of dreadful denouncements against their posterity. 1879 G. Macdonald P. Faber II. xii. 236 She sat listening to the curate's denouncement of hypocrisy. |
2. The fact of denouncing a mine or land; cf. denounce v. 8. (Mexico and Spanish America.)
| 1864 Mowry Arizona vi. 112 The title to these deposits is a ‘denouncement’ as discoverer, of four pertenencias. 1884 American VII. 296 Under the law of denouncement, a species of pre-emption by which unoccupied lands are acquired [in Mexico]. |