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English

Noun

crimination (countable and uncountable, plural criminations)

• An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination
  • ✤ […] and when the ambassadors, after a fruitless attempt at negotiation, which evaporated in mutual crimination and recrimination, set out on their return to Aragon, they were twice detained, […]¹

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin criminatio, criminationis.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˌkɹɪmɪˈneɪʃən/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

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Footnotes

1. 1837, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella ↩