Impeachment

[ɪm'pi:tʃmənt] or [ɪm'pitʃmənt]

(noun.) a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office.

Editor: Sallust--From WordNet

(n.) The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached

(n.) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.

(n.) A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration.

(n.) A calling in question as to purity of motives, rectitude of conduct, credibility, etc.; accusation; reproach; as, an impeachment of motives.

Edited by Donnie

n. [1]. Accusation, indictment, charge, arraignment, crimination.[2]. Censure, blame, reproach, imputation.

Editor: Susanna

He addresses this to the astounded Tony, who admits the soft impeachment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
His lips were mute, but his eye confessed the impeachment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Ben admitted the soft impeachment. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Nothing of the sort, said Mr. Brooke, smiling and rubbing his eye-glasses, but really blushing a little at the impeachment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Then come impeachments and judgments and trials of one another. Plato. The Republic.

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