delation
Americannoun
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This makes the encomiums conferred in this letter more significant, since they must have been bestowed after the delation against Albinus and Boethius.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas
During the last three months of 1904 public opinion was diverted to the cognate question of the existence of masonic delation in the army.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
The system of kirk discipline offered a ready-made machinery of espionage and delation.
From Milton by Pattison, Mark
It elevated delation to the rank of high religious duty.”
From A History of Freedom of Thought by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)
Some rumours reached de Molay of the delation made by the Toulousian prisoners, but the pope reassured him in an interview, April 1307, and lulled him into security.
From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine
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