delation
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The late Prefect however was not so prudent, and chose rather to encourage delation; but mark the consequence!
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
The public accusation, which had once been the stepping-stone to fame, had changed its name, and become delation.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Ungrateful testators paid their due penalty after death; and delation, watching every word or gesture, skilfully supplied the needed tale of victims for plunder.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
They all agree, moreover, in holding delation of accomplices as the indispensable evidence of true conversion.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
It elevated delation to the rank of high religious duty.”
From A History of Freedom of Thought by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
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