Treason
['triːz(ə)n] or ['trizn]
Definition
(noun.) a crime that undermines the offender's government.
(noun.) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior.
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Definition
(n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.
(n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Treachery (to a sovereign or a government), disloyalty, LEZE-MAJESTY, breach of allegiance.
Editor: Nat
Definition
n. betraying of the government or an attempt to overthrow it: treachery; disloyalty.—adj. Trea′sonable pertaining to consisting of or involving treason.—n. Trea′sonableness.—adv. Trea′sonably.—adj. Trea′sonous.—Treason felony the crime of desiring to depose the sovereign intimidate parliament stir up a foreign invasion &c.—declared by statute in 1848.—Constructive treason anything which may be interpreted as equivalent to actual treason by leading naturally to it; High treason offences against the state; Misprision of treason knowledge of the principal crime and concealment thereof; Petty treason the murder of a husband by a wife a master by a servant &c.
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Examples
- The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- By the scallop-shell of Compostella, I will make a martyr of him, if he loiters here to hatch treason among my domestics! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Treason in the executive branch of the government was estopped. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It seized Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and charged him with treason. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In such minds, disregard of religion is a more fearful treason,--a more deadly sin. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He paid me a flying visit and seemed as much agitated as though he were about to be tried for high treason. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The Treason case. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He knew there would be people clamoring for the punishment of the ex-Confederate president, for high treason. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A Knight stepped forward from the King's attendants, and, laying his hand on the shoulder of Albert de Malvoisin, said, I arrest thee of High Treason. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That's treason, Tenente, Bonello said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Political discussion would have been treason to the emperor, social or economic inquiry would have threatened the rich. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We answer strikes with bayonets, and make treason one of the rights of man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Caligula valued himself for being a notable dancer; and to deny that he excelled in that manly accomplishment was high treason. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Then follow informations and convictions for treason. Plato. The Republic.
- This puts one in mind of a king arrainged for high-treason against his subjects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- By the help of inferences and innuendoes, treasons multiplied in a prodigious manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- By such treasons against their subjects, empires destroy themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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