IMPEACHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impeachment mean? 

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

1. a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPEACHMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

Derivation:

impeach (charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office)

 Context examples 

Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex-prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In three days your friend the secretary will be directed to come to your house, and read before you the articles of impeachment; and then to signify the great lenity and favour of his majesty and council, whereby you are only condemned to the loss of your eyes, which his majesty does not question you will gratefully and humbly submit to; and twenty of his majesty’s surgeons will attend, in order to see the operation well performed, by discharging very sharp-pointed arrows into the balls of your eyes, as you lie on the ground.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the several debates upon this impeachment, it must be confessed that his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity; often urging the services you had done him, and endeavouring to extenuate your crimes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This lord, in conjunction with Flimnap the high-treasurer, whose enmity against you is notorious on account of his lady, Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand justiciary, have prepared articles of impeachment against you, for treason and other capital crimes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)