different between criminate vs crimination

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crimino, criminatus.

Verb

criminate (third-person singular simple present criminates, present participle criminating, simple past and past participle criminated)

1. (transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate. [from 17th c.]
   • 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 331:

     ‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […].’

2. (transitive, now rare) To rebuke or censure (someone). [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• crimination

Translations

Anagrams

• anticrime, antimeric, carminite, macrinite, metrician

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kri?.mi?na?.te/, [k?i?m??nä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kri.mi?na.te/, [k?imi?n??t??]

Verb

cr?min?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cr?min?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin criminatio, criminationis.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??m??ne???n/

Noun

crimination (countable and uncountable, plural criminations)

1. An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination
   • 1837, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella

     […] and when the ambassadors, after a fruitless attempt at negotiation, which evaporated in mutual crimination and recrimination, set out on their return to Aragon, they were twice detained, […]

Related terms

• criminate

Translations