denouncement

Other forms: denouncements

Definitions of denouncement
  1. noun
    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
    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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