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/ˌækjəzˈeɪʃən/ /ˌækjuzˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Accusation n.

The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. "We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses."

That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. "(They) set up over his head his accusation."

Synonyms: Impeachment; crimination; censure; charge.

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Etymology of 'Accusation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accusation" Quotes from Famous Books

... do not fear to face you in this hour of accusation, nor do I shrink from the consequences of my utterances or my acts. Standing before you, charged as I am with crime, I can look the Court in the face, I can look you in the face, I can look the world in the ...

— The Debs Decision • Scott Nearing

... meditating any such unusual scheme, as following him without a full day's warning. I thought of this even before I had finished my sentence, and did not need the blank astonishment in the face of the man before me to convince me that I had given utterance to a foolish accusation. "It would have been some sort of a motive for your actions," I humbly added, as I sank back from my hostile ...

— The Old Stone House and Other Stories • Anna Katharine Green

... door for her, and Denys was struck by her woebegone, weary face. For a moment Denys hesitated, thinking of that accusation of interference, thinking of Mary's constant ungraciousness to her, but she pushed the remembrance aside and said kindly, "Is anything the matter, Mary? ...

— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh

... friends on the basis of this Confession, was declined by the theologians of Jena. Moreover, in answer to the Brief Confession, Hesshusius published (April 21, 1571) his True Counter-Report, in which he again repeated his accusation that Flacius made the devil a creator of substance. He summarized his arguments as follows: "I have therefore proved from one book [Flacius's tract of 1567] more than six times that Illyricus says: Satan condidit, fabricavit, transformavit ...

— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente

... Legg has investigated the subsequent history of this good Bishop Pierce, and shows how the Puritans when they were in power used this reply as a means of accusation against him, whereby they attempted to prove that "he profanely opposed the sanctification of the Lord's Day by approving and allowing of profane wakes and revels on that day," and was "a desperately ...

— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield

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