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DENOUNCEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does denouncement mean? 

DENOUNCEMENT (noun)
  The noun DENOUNCEMENT has 1 sense:

1. a public act of denouncingplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


DENOUNCEMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A public act of denouncing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

denouncement; denunciation

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

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

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

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)

Derivation:

denounce (speak out against)

denounce (to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful)


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