denounce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈnaʊns/
ipa: /dəˈnaʊns/
rhymes: -aʊns
Forms: form: denounces
form: denouncing
form: denounced
form: denounced
Etymology: From Old French denuncier, from Latin dēnūntiō (“to announce, to denounce, to threaten”), from de + nūntiō (“to announce, to report, to denounce”), from nūntius (“messenger, message”). Doublet of denunciate.
Senses: examples: text: Nero[…]sent his Satellites or officers toward him, to denounce the decree of his death to him[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 35, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: And full of peace, denouncing wrath to come
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
glosses: To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
examples: text: to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward
text: Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
ref: 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013:
text: It is the latest step towards an airline-style advance booking-only system, which rail users have denounced as signalling the end of affordable, immediate travel.
ref: 2024 February 7, Mel Holley, “Network News: LNER ditches Off-Peak for 70min semi-flexible fare”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 6:
glosses: To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
examples: text: to denounce a confederate in crime
text: to denounce someone to the authorities
glosses: To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
examples: text: to denounce war; to denounce punishment
glosses: To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
examples: text: It would be possible to “denounce” (leave) the Convention altogether, but short of that, legislation to restore the death penalty would place the UK government in breach of its treaty obligations under the ECHR; it would breach international law.
ref: 2020 December 29, Matthew Scott, “How could Priti Patel reintroduce the death penalty?”, in BarristerBlogger (blog), archived from the original on 30 Dec 2020:
text: A Contracting State may denounce this Convention, or Part II or Part III of the Convention, by a formal notification in writing addressed to the depositary.
ref: 2021, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, “Sale of Goods (United Nations Convention) Ordinance”, in Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette, page A3313:
glosses: To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
glosses: To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.
Synonyms: attack
charge
condemn
criticize
damn
decry
discredit
inveigh against
proscribe
report
Derived terms: denounceable
denouncement
denouncer
redenounce
undenounced
Related terms: word: denunciate
word: denunciation
word: denunciative
word: denunciator
word: denunciatory
sense: Terms related via Latin nūntiō
word: announce
sense: Terms related via Latin nūntiō
word: enounce
sense: Terms related via Latin nūntiō
word: pronounce
sense: Terms related via Latin nūntiō
word: renounce