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Denounce vs Reprimand - What's the difference?

denounce | reprimand |

As verbs the difference between denounce and reprimand

is that denounce is to make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare while reprimand is to reprove in a formal or official way.

As a noun reprimand is

a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

denounce

English

Verb

(denounc)
  • (obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
  • *, II.35:
  • Nero .
  • *
  • To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
  • to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward
  • * 2013 May 23, (Sarah Lyall), " British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
  • Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
  • To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
  • to denounce a confederate in crime
    to denounce someone to the authorities
  • (obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
  • to denounce''' war; to '''denounce punishment
  • To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
  • Synonyms

    * attack, charge, condemn, criticize, damn, decry, discredit, inveigh against, proscribe, report

    Derived terms

    * denouncement * denouncer

    See also

    * announce * enounce * pronounce * renounce

    References

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    Anagrams

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    reprimand

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
  • * Macaulay
  • Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reprove in a formal or official way.
  • * 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
  • He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope:

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * admonish * admonition * rebuke * reprehend * reprehension * reproof * reproval * reprove