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/ˌækjəzˈeɪʃən/ /ˌækjuzˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Accusation n.

The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. "We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses."

That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. "(They) set up over his head his accusation."

Synonyms: Impeachment; crimination; censure; charge.

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Etymology of 'Accusation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accusation" Quotes from Famous Books

... fallible and have their weak side. Large bodies of men must contain some unworthy members. A long history can hardly be without blots, mistakes, and crimes. No man's life, if narrowly scrutinized by an unfavorable and prejudiced criticism, but will afford ground for accusation. Then, too, facts may be perverted, circumstances may be made to bear a meaning that does not really belong to them, and fear and torture may force the weak to say anything that they are required. And, finally, the evidence and the judgment of those who have ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... statements on seeing that the lady's suffering increased. And what strange suffering it was; a heart-pang at each fresh accusation, as if her husband's illegitimate child had become in some degree her own! She ended indeed ...

— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

... without a full day's warning. I thought of this even before I had finished my sentence, and did not need the blank astonishment in the face of the man before me to convince me that I had given utterance to a foolish accusation. "It would have been some sort of a motive for your actions," I humbly added, as I sank back from my hostile attitude; "now ...

— The Old Stone House and Other Stories • Anna Katharine Green

... and pray!" said Agnes. "And yet I can bear it better now that you are here. Your presence refutes the worst accusation, and removes a heavy weight ...

— The Lances of Lynwood • Charlotte M. Yonge

... dearer to Englishmen than that of Poerio to his Neapolitan fellow-countrymen. Poerio was tried and condemned on the sole accusation of a worthless character named Jerrolino. He would have been acquitted nevertheless, by a division of four to five of his judges, had not Navarro (who sat as a judge while directly concerned in the charge against the prisoner), ...

— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook

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