delation
Americannoun
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The system of kirk discipline offered a ready-made machinery of espionage and delation.
From Milton by Pattison, Mark
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
Rash judgments.—Analysis of a treatise of Nicole.—Envy; rancor; delation.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul
He had himself witnessed the triumph of delation and the cold cruelty of Domitian.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
From these feelings of hatred, envy, rancor, covetousness, springs sometimes a vice which lowers the soul and corrupts it: this is delation.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul
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