denounce

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It is wrong to denounce, as Bailey does, "single-action" laws or the like which prod lenders to look to their security interests for value after a mortgage default.

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  1. transitive verb To condemn openly as being evil or reprehensible. See Synonyms at criticize.
  2. transitive verb To accuse formally.
  3. transitive verb To give formal announcement of the ending of (a treaty).

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  • Bill's modus operandi is to create leaflets containing obscene pictures pertaining to those sins he wishes to denounce -- usually either sodomy or abortion -- and then stick them in people's mailboxes. —  BIG BLUE WAVE
  • Conservatives observe, point out, denounce, and cry from the rooftops about media bias. —  The Campaign Spot
  • It is wrong to denounce, as Bailey does, "single-action" laws or the like which prod lenders to look to their security interests for value after a mortgage default. —  Credit Slips
  • I've never seen a rational story with the word "denounce" in it. —  BlueOregon
  • With Chaplet and Rosary let us pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary that the successor of Peter, in this era when the government of the Church is incredibly difficult to ensure, can find in Lourdes enlightenment and strength to recognize, denounce, and eradicate conciliar errors which are in essence the cause of the crisis of the Church. —  RORATE CÆLI
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denounce:   denounced ·  denouncing ·  denounces
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English denouncen, to proclaim, from Anglo-Norman denuncier and Medieval Latin dēnūntiāre, both from Latin : dē-, de- + nūntiāre, to announce (from nūntius, messenger; see neu- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English denouncen, from Old French denoncer, denūncer, French dénoncer = Spanish Portuguese denunciar = Italian denunziare, from Latin denunciare, denuntiare (past participle denunciatus, whence the other English form denunciate), declare, announce, threaten, denounce, from de- + nunciare, nuntiare, announce, from nuncius, more correctly nuntius, a messenger: see nuncio. Cf. announce, enounce, pronounce, renounce.
 

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