DENUNCIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does denunciation mean? 

• DENUNCIATION (noun)
  The noun DENUNCIATION has 1 sense:

1. a public act of denouncing

  Familiarity information: DENUNCIATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENUNCIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public act of denouncing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

denouncement; denunciation

Hypernyms ("denunciation" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "denunciation"):

excoriation (severe censure)

diatribe; fulmination (thunderous verbal attack)

broadside; philippic; tirade (a speech of violent denunciation)

damnation (the act of damning)

condemnation; curse; execration (an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group)

 Context examples 

Their method was one of assertion, assumption, and denunciation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

On the day of Mr. Micawber's memorable denunciation a threatening allusion was made by Uriah Heep to your aunt's—husband.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His hatred of them knew no bounds, and he excelled Martin in denunciation when he turned upon them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I cannot tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin-brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time—they or their seed might yet escape a fatal Rimoth-Gilead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He ran the gamut of denunciation, rising to heights of wrath that were sublime and almost Godlike, and from sheer exhaustion sinking to the vilest and most indecent abuse.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Under the storm of denunciation Brissenden complacently sipped his toddy and affirmed that everything the other said was quite true, with the exception of the magazine editors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Standing by the table, with his finger in the page to keep the place, and his right arm flourishing above his head, Traddles, as Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Burke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Sidmouth, or Mr. Canning, would work himself into the most violent heats, and deliver the most withering denunciations of the profligacy and corruption of my aunt and Mr. Dick; while I used to sit, at a little distance, with my notebook on my knee, fagging after him with all my might and main.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As I say, while I appreciated the power of the terrific denunciation that swept out of Wolf Larsen’s mouth, I was inexpressibly shocked.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)