delation
Americannoun
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That court is to try criminals sent to it by the National Assembly, or brought before it by other courses of delation.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
The hatred expressed to the King’s new Catholic policy by Lascelles proves him to have been a fit instrument for the delation and ruin of Katharine.
From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume
It elevated delation to the rank of high religious duty.”
From A History of Freedom of Thought by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
The system of kirk discipline offered a ready-made machinery of espionage and delation.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
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
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