Definition of treason

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Treason (n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy..

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Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death..
Abetment :: Abetment (n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc..
Outreason :: Outreason (v. t.) To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
Inoculate :: Inoculate (v. t.) Fig.: To introduce into the mind; -- used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity..
Treason :: Treason (n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery..
Perduellion :: Perduellion (n.) Treason.
Traitorous :: Traitorous (a.) Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme..
Traitorous :: Traitorous (a.) Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject..
Prattle :: Prattle (v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason..
Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..
Treason :: Treason (n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy..
Treachery :: Treachery (n.) Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
Treasonable :: Treasonable (a.) Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt..
Lisp :: Lisp (v. t.) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason..
Conspire :: Conspire (v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together..
Appellant :: Appellant (n.) One who accuses another of felony or treason.
War :: War (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason..
Approvement :: Approvement (n.) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States..
Prodition :: Prodition (n.) Disclosure; treachery; treason.
Sedition :: Sedition (n.) The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority..
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