inculpation

Learned borrowing from Late Latin inculpātiō.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

inculpation (countable and uncountable, plural inculpations)

1. Blame; censure; crimination.
   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 165:

     Mutterings fill the town: “our sons have fallen to avenge another’s wife”—perfidious and adulterous Helen. Such inculpation of a commanding general is a novel argument in antiquity, and unusual even in modern times.

• inculpate
• inculpatory

• Latino-Punic

Learned borrowing from Late Latin inculpātiō. By surface analysis, inculper +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kyl.pa.sjɔ̃/

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inculpation f (plural inculpations)

1. (law) charge, indictment

   chef d'inculpation ― count (a single charge in legal proceedings)

• mise en examen
• accusation
• condamnation

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