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The fanatics and extremists and even those conscientiously devoted to hard and fast principles are always disappointed at the failure of their Government to rush to implement all of their principles and to denounce those of their opponents.†
Chpt 0.1
The half-filled Senate chamber fairly echoed with the shouting of his Massachusetts colleague, Senator Pickering, who was denouncing President Jefferson's Trade Embargo of 1807 for what seemed like the one hundredth time.†
Chpt 1.2

denouncing = strongly criticizing or accusing publicly OR (more rarely) informing against someone
But it was not until 1807 that the split between party and Senator became irreparable, and Adams was denounced by the great majority of his constituents, as well as the party chiefs.†
Chpt 1.2 *

denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
"Parton has denounced you as No Federalist," his father wrote, "and I wish he would denounce me in the same manner, for I have long since renounced, abdicated, and disclaimed the name and character and attributes of that sect, as it now appears."†
Chpt 1.2
"Parton has denounced you as No Federalist," his father wrote, "and I wish he would denounce me in the same manner, for I have long since renounced, abdicated, and disclaimed the name and character and attributes of that sect, as it now appears."†
Chpt 1.2
When his colleague Pickering denounced him in an open letter to the Legislature which was distributed throughout Massachusetts in tens of thousands, he wrote a masterful reply—criticizing the Federalist party as sectional, outmoded and unpatriotic; insisting that the critical issues of war and peace could not be decided on the basis of "geographical position, party bias or professional occupation"; and exploding at Pickering's servile statement that "Although Great Britain, with her thousand ships of war, could have destroyed our commerce, she has really done it no essential injury."†
Chpt 1.2

denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
The Rev. Theodore Parker, heedless of the dangers of secession, who had boasted of harboring a fugitive slave in his cellar and writing his sermons with a sword over his ink stand and a pistol in his desk "loaded and ready for defense," denounced Webster in merciless fashion from his pulpit, an attack he would continue even after Webster's death: "No living man has done so much," he cried, "to debauch the conscience of the nation......I know of no deed in American history done by a son of New England to which I can compare this, but the act of Benedict Arnold."†
Chpt 2.3
The first precaution of any aspirant for the Presidency is to make sure of his own state and section; and Webster knew that his speech would send echoes of denunciation leaping from Mount Mansfield to Monamoy Light.†
Chpt 2.3

denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
But Benton did not hesitate even on the eve of election to continue his denunciation of his party's Texas policy.†
Chpt 2.4
Calhoun, successful in obtaining adoption of his resolutions by several Southern legislatures, denounced Benton to his Missouri enemies as one "false to the South for the last ten years......He can do us much less injury in the camp of the abolitionists than he could in our own camp.†
Chpt 2.4

denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
He denounced the leading Southern spokesman for his party as "John 'Cataline' Calhoun" (a denunciation he would continue until shortly before Calhoun's death after a long illness in 1850.†
Chpt 2.4
He denounced the leading Southern spokesman for his party as "John 'Cataline' Calhoun" (a denunciation he would continue until shortly before Calhoun's death after a long illness in 1850.†
Chpt 2.4

denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
and for that cause Mr. Calhoun denounced me for a traitor to the South......the signal to all his followers in Missouri to go to work upon me......The conspiracy is now established......Nullification resolutionspassed by fraud, which it was known I would not obey......Men appointed to attack me in all parts of the state......Packed meetings got up to condemn me......Newspapers enlisted in the service ...and many good citizens deceived.†
Chpt 2.4

denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
His campaign, according to the opposition New Orleans Crescent, "spared no public or personal denunciation.†
Chpt 2.4

denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
With violent invective he denounced provisions repealing his cherished Missouri Com-promise and pleaded for a national outlook.†
Chpt 2.4

denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
The Democratic State Convention denounced the great warrior as "not in accordance with the sentiments of the Democracy of Texas."†
Chpt 2.5
He had already made several tours of Texas during the Senate's autumn recesses, comparing Calhoun with "reckless demagogues," terming Jefferson Davis "ambitious as Lucifer and cold as a lizard," and denouncing with equal vigor both "the mad fanaticism of the North" and "the mad ambition of the South."†
Chpt 2.5

denouncing = strongly criticizing or accusing publicly OR (more rarely) informing against someone
Denounced on one hand as a traitor and on the other as a Know-Nothing (based on his brief flirtation with that intolerant but nonsectional party), he wrote his wife that "their dirty scandal falls off me like water off a duck's back.†
Chpt 2.5

denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
Houston's speech in Waco denouncing secession was answered by the explosion of a keg of powder behind the hotel in which he slept unharmed.†
Chpt 2.5

denouncing = strongly criticizing or accusing publicly OR (more rarely) informing against someone
I was denounced then as a traitor.†
Chpt 2.5

denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
I am denounced now.†
Chpt 2.5
Sam Houston, fighting desperately to hold on to the reins of government, called a special session of the State Legislature, denouncing extremists both North and South and insisting that he had "not yet lost the hope that our rights can be maintained in the Union."†
Chpt 2.5

denouncing = strongly criticizing or accusing publicly OR (more rarely) informing against someone
Ugly crowds, stones and denunciation as a traitor met him throughout the state.†
Chpt 2.5

denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
Long afterward Blaine was to admit: "In the exaggerated denunciation caused by the anger and chagrin of the moment, great injustice was done to statesmen of spotless character†
Chpt 3.6
But no one paid attention when Ross tried unsuccessfully to explain his vote, and denounced the falsehoods of Ben Butler's investigating committee, recalling that the General's "well known grovelling instincts and proneness to slime and uncleanness" had led "the public to insult the brute creation by dubbing him 'the beast.'†
Chpt 3.6

denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
Those Kansas newspapers and political leaders who had bitterly denounced him in earlier years praised Ross for his stand against legislative mob rule: "By the firmness and courage of Senator Ross," it was said, "the country was saved from calamity greater than war, while it consigned him to a political martyrdom, the most cruel in our history......Ross was the victimof a wild flame of intolerance which swept everything before it.†
Chpt 3.6
I could not close the story of Edmund Ross without some more adequate mention of those six courageous Republicans who stood with Ross and braved denunciation to acquit Andrew Johnson.†
Chpt 3.6

denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
I would rather be confined to planting cabbages the remainder of my days......Make up your mind, if need be, to hear me denounced a traitor and perhaps hanged in effigy.†
Chpt 3.6

denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
Denounced, threatened and burned in effigy in Missouri, he did not even bother to seek re-election to the Senate.†
Chpt 3.6
Still, when we realize that a newspaper that chooses to denounce a Senator today can reach many thousand times as many voters as could be reached by all of Daniel Webster's famous and articulate detractors put together, these stories of twentieth-century political courage have a drama, an excitement—and an inspiration—all their own.†
Chpt 4.0
We should not pretend that he was a faultless paragon of virtue; on the contrary, he was, on more than one occasion, emotional in his deliberations, vituperative in his denunciations, and prone to engage in bitter and exaggerated personal attack instead of concentrating his fire upon the merits of an issue.†
Chpt 4.8

denunciations = criticisms or accusations
The Nebraska press joined in the denunciation of its junior Senator.†
Chpt 4.8

denunciation = strong criticism or public accusation OR (more rarely) reporting someone to the authorities
The denunciation I have received ....indicates to me that there is strong probability that the courseI have pursued is unsatisfactory to the people whom I represent, and it seems, therefore, only fair that the matter should be submitted to them for decision.†
Chpt 4.8
But Senator Underwood, convinced that the Klan was contrary to all the principles of Jeffersonian democracy in which he believed, denounced it in no uncertain terms, insisted that this was the paramount issue upon which the party would have to take a firm stand, and fought vigorously but unsuccessfully to include an anti-Klan plank in the party platform.†
Chpt 4.10

denounced = strongly criticized or accused publicly OR (more rarely) informed against someone
Returning to Congress vindicated by the support he had received (despite the fact that most of his former colleagues from South Carolina had been defeated for re-election), he stood practically alone on the floor of the House as Members, new and old, scrambled to denounce the bill.†
Chpt 4.10

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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.

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