delation

Enraged by his wife's delation, he murdered her and fled to the aforementioned monastery.

Although the delation procedure discussed in 2.7.2 is the most straightforward possible method, other devices are often useful and sometimes preferable.

That court is to try criminals sent to it by the National Assembly, or brought before it by other courses of delation.

Delation (denunciation)

He felt stronger, more capable of dealing with most emergencies that might arise: delation, the sudden treachery of a captured or a double agent, even severe interrogation.

The Jacobins tried to separate - semantically and practically - the public-spirited denunciation (denonciation) from the treacherous, self-interested denunciation (delation).

Messieurs agreed upon and published their decision, that no delation required substantiating proof in order to be believed, and that, to be inscribed, accusation brought by anyone would suffice.

Scholars who support this theory believe that a famous letter from Pliny to Emperor Trajan concerning the delation of Christians reflects the situation faced by the addressees of this epistle.

In the second and early third centuries persecution was often haphazard, caused by mob violence or by delation to the local governor who might be quite reluctant to react to the information handed in by complainants.

Its full title was Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners or a Brief and Faithful delation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ to His Poor Servant, John Bunyan.

Guards would force them to attend scheduled or ad-hoc political instruction sessions, on topics such as dialectical materialism and Joseph Stalin's History of the CPSU(B) Short Course, usually accompanied by random violence and encouraged delation (demascare, lit.