delation
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“Delation is the duty of a patriot,” a second student responded.
From Washington Post
Another psychological inhibitor may be shame from the historical phenomenon known in France as la délation - or denunciation.
From BBC
In a statement it issued in September 2000, Argentina’s bishops apologised for their “silence” and the “effective participation” of some clergymen in “torture, delation, political persecution” during the regime.
From The Guardian
Among the many evils springing from this concealment, which released witnesses and accusers from all responsibility, not the least was the stimulus which it afforded to delation and the temptation created to gratify malice by reckless perjury.
From Project Gutenberg
They all agree, moreover, in holding delation of accomplices as the indispensable evidence of true conversion.
From Project Gutenberg
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