All 20 Uses
denounce
in
A Tale of Two Cities
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- Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth;†
Chpt 2.2denouncing = strongly criticizing or accusing publicly OR (more rarely) informing against someone
- "Citizen Doctor," said the first, reluctantly, "he has been denounced to the Section of Saint Antoine.†
Chpt 3.7denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
- Will you tell me who denounced him?†
Chpt 3.7
- But he is denounced—and gravely—by the Citizen and Citizeness Defarge.†
Chpt 3.7
- I play my Ace, Denunciation of Mr. Barsad to the nearest Section Committee.†
Chpt 3.8denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
- He saw that the spy was fearful of his drinking himself into a fit state for the immediate denunciation of him.†
Chpt 3.8
- He had since seen her, in the Section of Saint Antoine, over and over again produce her knitted registers, and denounce people whose lives the guillotine then surely swallowed up.†
Chpt 3.8
- Once denounced, and on such grave grounds as had just now been suggested to his mind, he foresaw that the dreadful woman of whose unrelenting character he had seen many proofs, would produce against him that fatal register, and would quash his last chance of life.†
Chpt 3.8denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
- Impossible, here in raging Paris, with Suspicion filling the air, for you to outlive denunciation, when you are in communication with another aristocratic spy of the same antecedents as yourself, who, moreover, has the mystery about him of having feigned death and come to life again!†
Chpt 3.8denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
- I may denounce you if I think proper, and I can swear my way through stone walls, and so can others.†
Chpt 3.8
- To propose too much, would be to put this man's head under the axe, and, as he himself said, nothing worse could happen to him if he were denounced.†
Chpt 3.9denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
- Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people.†
Chpt 3.9
- The President asked, was the Accused openly denounced or secretly?†
Chpt 3.9
- Who and where is the false conspirator who says that I denounce the husband of my child!†
Chpt 3.9
- And them and their descendants, to the last of their race, I, Alexandre Manette, unhappy prisoner, do this last night of the year 1767, in my unbearable agony, denounce to the times when all these things shall be answered for.†
Chpt 3.10
- I denounce them to Heaven and to earth.
Chpt 3.10 *denounce = to strongly criticize or accuse publicly
- The man never trod ground whose virtues and services would have sustained him in that place that day, against such denunciation.†
Chpt 3.10denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
- And all the worse for the doomed man, that the denouncer was a well-known citizen, his own attached friend, the father of his wife.†
Chpt 3.10
- They are in danger of denunciation by Madame Defarge.†
Chpt 3.12denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
- This new denunciation will certainly not take place until after to-morrow; probably not until two or three days afterwards; more probably a week afterwards.†
Chpt 3.12
Definitions:
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(1)
(denounce) to strongly criticize or accuse publicly
or more rarely: to inform against someone (turn someone into the authorities) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, denounce can indicate the termination of a treaty or other formal agreement.