different between criminate vs denounce

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

From Old French denuncier, from Latin d?n?nti? (“to announce, to denounce, to threaten”), from de + n?nti? (“to announce, to report, to denounce”), from n?ntius (“messenger, message”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?na?ns/, /d??na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

denounce (third-person singular simple present denounces, present participle denouncing, simple past and past participle denounced)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
2. (transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.

   to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward

   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

     Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.

3. (transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.

5. (transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
6. (US, historical) To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.

Synonyms

• attack, charge, condemn, criticize, damn, decry, discredit, inveigh against, proscribe, report

Related terms

• denunciate

Derived terms

• denouncement
• denouncer

Related terms

Translations

See also

• announce
• enounce
• pronounce
• renounce

References

• denounce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• denounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• enounced, unencode