Delation vs Duplication - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Conveyance.
(legal) An accusation or charge brought against someone, especially by an informer.
* {{quote-book, year=1858, author=John Addington Symonds, title=Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Some curious circumstances respecting delation , prison life, and autos da fe are here minutely recorded.]}}
* {{quote-book, year=1789, author=Edward Gibbon, title=The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Such public defiance might become Valentinian; but it could leave no room for the unworthy delation of the philosopher Maximus, which supposes some more private offence, (Zosimus, l. iv. p. 200, 201.)]}}
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 253:
*:A wise woman who was popular with her neighbours might escape delation ; whereas one who had fallen out with them might find herself accused not just of charming, but even of black witchcraft.
The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.
As nouns the difference between delation and duplication
is that delation is informing, tattling while duplication is the act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.delation
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