delation
Americannoun
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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
In a few short months, by a campaign of delation and espionage, he had completely disorganized the army, the only really national institution left in France.
From A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston
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 Katherine Kimball
The cowardly assault did not save the minister, who was too deeply compromised in the delation scandal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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
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