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denouncement

DEFINITIONS OF: denouncement

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n a public act of denouncing

Synonyms:
denunciation
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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
anathema
a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
imprecation, malediction
the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
Type of:
speech act
the use of language to perform some act
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