incrimination

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin incriminatus ( +‎ -ion), from incrimino, from Latin crimino. Equivalent to incriminate +‎ -ion.

Noun

incrimination (countable and uncountable, plural incriminations)

1. The act of incriminating someone.

Derived terms

• self-incrimination

Related terms

• crimination
• incriminate

Translations

accusation of wrongdoing

• Bulgarian: обвинение (bg) n (obvinenie), осъждане (bg) n (osǎždane)
• Finnish: syytös (fi)
• French: incrimination (fr) f
• Polish: inkryminacja (pl) f
• Russian: обвине́ние (ru) n (obvinénije)

See also

• accusation

References

• “incrimination”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “incrimination”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.na.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

incrimination f (plural incriminations)

1. incrimination

Further reading

• “incrimination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012