Denouncement

Definition: Denouncement

Denouncement

Noun

1. A public act of denouncing.

Date "denouncement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Etymology: Denouncement \De*nounce"ment\, noun. [Compare to Old French denoncement.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Denouncement

Synonym: denunciation (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Accusation	Denunciation, denouncement; libel, challenge, citation, arraignment; impeachment, appeachment; indictment, bill of indictment, true bill; lawsuit; condemnation.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Denouncement and Reaffirmation of the Afro-Hispanic Identity in Carlos Guillermo Wilson's Works (Coleccion Ebano Y Canela) (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Worker Rights	Uruguay	At the ILO's governing meeting in June, the Association of Bank Employees of Uruguay brought allegations against the government concerning antiunion dismissals, threats of dismissal, and irregular denouncement of a collective agreement. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Denouncement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Denouncement" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Language		Translations for "denouncement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dënim publik (denunciation), dënim (adjudication, castigation, censure, condemnation, conviction, damnation, denunciation, deprecation, disapprobation, disapproval, discipline, dispraise, doom, judgement, judgment, mulct, penalty, proscription, punishment, rap, recompense, sentence, strafe, what for), prishje e marrëveshjes (denunciation), kërcënim (blackmail, chantage, commination, imminence, intimidation, menace, saltation, threat, threatening), akuzim (accusation, committal proceedings, crimination, denunciation, impeachment, incrimination). (various references)

Arabic		‏إستنكار (censure, condemnation, denunciation, disapprobation, disapproval, reproof), ‏إبلاغ (annunciation), ‏شجب (condemn, condemnation, decry, denounce, denunciation, excoriation, execrate, fulminate, rail, reprehend, stigmatize). (various references)

Bulgarian		осъждане (assize, condemnation, conviction, crimination, denunciation, deprecation, reprobation, repudiation), отричане (abnegation, denial, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, proscription, recantation, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, retractation, retraction, traverse), предаване (commitment, committal, conveyance, delivery, denunciation, handover, rendering, rendition, surrender, translation, transmission), изобличаване (denunciation), издаване (delation, denunciation, disclosure, divulgation, emission, issuance, issue, publication, publishing). (various references)

Czech		denunciace (denunciation, information). (various references)

French		dénonciation (denunciation), délation. (various references)

German		Anklage (accusal, accusation, charge, condemnation, impeachment, indictment, prosecution). (various references)

Greek		καταγγελία (arraignment, complaint, denunciation, impeachment, indictment). (various references)

Hebrew		�"וקע�" (cast, condemnation, denunciation, hanging, stigmatizing). (various references)

Hungarian		megbélyegzés (brand, condemnation), feljelentés (accusation, denunciation, information, report). (various references)

Pig Latin		enouncementday

Portuguese		denúncia (accusation, arraignment, betrayal, bill, complaint, delation, denunciation), acusação (accusal, accusation, arraignment, bill of indictment, charge, committal for trial, complaint, count of indictment, denunciation, impeachment, inculpatory, indictment, plaint, prosecution, specification). (various references)

Romanian		delaţiune (delation, information), acuzare (accusation, accusing, arraignment, charge, denunciation, guilt, impeachment, imputation, inculpation, indictment). (various references)

Russian		разоблачение (denunciation, disclosure, exposure, reveal, showup). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		denunciranje, potkazivanje (denunciation, snitch). (various references)

Spanish		denuncia (accusation, annulment, complaint, delation, denunciation, impeachment, information), anulación (annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, defeat, nullification, repudiation, rescission, revocation). (various references)

Swedish		förkastelsedom (condemnation), fördömande (condemnatory, damning, denunciation, denunciative, denunciatory, fulmination). (various references)

Turkish		kehanet (augury, divination, omen, oracle, oracular, portent, prediction, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, second sight, Sibylline, soothsaying, vaticination), kınama (animadversion, blame, castigation, censure, condemnation, criticism, denunciation, disapprobation, disapproval, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, reproval, strafing, strictures), iptal duyurusu, ihbar (conveyance, denunciation, informing, notice, squeal, warning), fesih (abolition, annulment, cancel, cancellation, cassation, defeasance, dissolution, invalidation, repeal, rescission), eleştiri (animadversion, censure, comment, commentary, criticism, critique, expostulation, knocking, review, slating, stricture, strictures). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự vạch mặt sự lên án (denunciation), sự tố giác (delation, denunciation), sự tố cáo (arraignment, delation, denunciation, rebutment, rebuttal), sự phản đối kịch liệt (denunciation), sự đe doạ (denunciation, intimidation, threatening, thunder). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "denouncement": denouncements. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Denouncement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: denonement, denounement. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "denouncement" (pronounced 'De*nounce"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-m-n-n-n-o-t-u"
	-2 letters: denouement.
	-3 letters: contemned.
	-4 letters: cemented, denounce, document, duecento, enounced, tendence.
	-5 letters: condemn, contemn, contend, counted, demeton, demount, endnote, enounce, eudemon, mounted, tenoned, unnoted.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-m-n-n-n-o-t-u"
	+1 letter: denouncements.
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