Denouncing someone without revealing one's own identity.
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Examples for "delation "
Examples for "delation "
1 Sejanus had built up his power by fostering the system of delation .
2 The late Prefect however was not so prudent, and chose rather to encourage delation ; but mark the consequence!
3 Nero's private excesses and debaucheries developed, while the horrible system of delation flourished, and prosecutions for treason abounded.
4 As a doctrine of the Real Presence peculiar to yourself, I can commend it to the Archbishop together with your delation of me.
1 An anonymous denunciation against Déroulède had reached the Public Prosecutor that day.
2 An anonymous denunciation had roused the hopes of these sanguinary patriots.
3 He spoke about an anonymous denunciation , which reached the Public Prosecutor early this morning.
4 The accounts proved fake and magistrates focused their investigation on who was behind the anonymous denunciation .
5 The anonymous denunciation recurred to her, and with it all the suspicion she had in vain rejected.
6 Vincent then gave an account of their escape, and of the anonymous denunciation of himself and Dan.
7 An anonymous denunciation suffices to bring about the arrest and imprisonment of any Czech man, woman or child.
8 In 1754, two years after the anonymous denunciation , we find a repetition of the charge of treachery against Glengarry.
9 No mere suspicion or anonymous denunciation would be sufficient in his case, to bring him before the tribunal of the Revolution.
10 I should have thought that the Committee of Public Safety would disdain an anonymous denunciation against a faithful servant of the people of France.
11 At first he took it to be one of the many anonymous denunciations he received daily.
12 The mouth of the lion of St. Mark received anonymous denunciations , and the waves which passed under the Bridge of Sighs carried away the corpses.
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