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English
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Etymology
First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accusacion, borrowed from Old French acusacion (French accusation), from Latin accūsātiō (“accusation, indictment”), from accūsō (“blame, accuse”). Doublet of accusatio. More at accuse. Equivalent to accuse + -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌæk.ju.ˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌæk.jə.ˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
accusation (countable and uncountable, plural accusations)
- The act of accusing.
1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:We come not by the way of accusation / To taint that honour every good tongue blesses.
- (law) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
- An allegation.
- ungrounded accusations
- a blind accusation
- repeated accusations
- an accusation of a crime
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act of accusing or charging with a crime
- Arabic: اِتِّهَام m (ittihām)
- Armenian: մեղադրանք (hy) (meġadrankʿ)
- Azerbaijani: ittiham
- Belarusian: абвінава́чванне n (abvinaváčvannje), абвінава́чанне n (abvinaváčannje)
- Bulgarian: обвине́ние (bg) n (obvinénie)
- Catalan: acusació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 控告 (zh) (kònggào), 指控 (zh) (zhǐkòng)
- Czech: obvinění (cs) n
- Danish: anklage (da) c, beskyldning (da)
- Dutch: beschuldiging (nl)
- Esperanto: akuzo
- Finnish: syyttäminen (fi)
- French: accusation (fr) f
- Galician: acusación (gl) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Anklage (de) f, Beschuldigung (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐌵𐌹𐍃𐍃 f (usqiss)
- Greek: κατηγορία (el) f (katigoría)
- Ancient: κατηγορία f (katēgoría), ἔγκλημα n (énklēma)
- Hebrew: אישום m (ishúm), האשמה f (haashamá)
- Hungarian: vád (hu), vádemelés (hu), megvádolás (hu)
- Italian: accusa (it) f
- Japanese: 告発 (ja) (こくはつ, kokuhatsu)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 고발 (ko) (gobal)
- Latin: accūsātiō f
- Macedonian: обвинување n (obvinuvanje), оптужба f (optužba)
- Mongolian: яллалт (jallalt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: anklage (no) m or f, beskyldning m or f
- Nynorsk: skulding f
- Occitan: acusacion (oc) f
- Persian: اتهام (fa) (ettehâm)
- Plautdietsch: Kloag f, Aunkloag f
- Polish: oskarżenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: acusação (pt) f
- Romanian: acuzație (ro) f, învinovățire (ro) f
- Russian: обвине́ние (ru) n (obvinénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: оптужба f
- Roman: optužba (sh) f
- Slovak: obvinenie n
- Slovene: obtožba f
- Spanish: acusación (es) f
- Swahili: madai (sw)
- Swedish: anklagelse (sv) c, anklagan (sv) c, beskyllning (sv) c
- Tagalog: bintang (tl), akusasyon (tl)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: suçlama (tr)
- Ukrainian: звинува́чення n (zvynuváčennja)
- Vietnamese: sự buộc tội (vi)
- Welsh: cyhuddo (cy) m, cyhuddiad m
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that of which one is accused
declaration of fault or blame against another
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin accūsātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
accusation f (plural accusations)
- accusation
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Interlingua
Noun
accusation (plural accusationes)
- accusation