treason
IPA: trˈizʌn
noun
- The crime of betraying one’s own country.
- An act of treachery, betrayal of trust or confidence.
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Examples of "treason" in Sentences
- The magazine was accused of treason.
- Electoral fraud is treasonable and criminal.
- Both acts are treasonable punishable by death.
- Failure to do so was to be treated as treasonable.
- He was extradited from the UK and imprisoned for treason.
- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation.
- Negative misprision is the concealment of treason or felony.
- The offence of treason was created by of the Crimes Act 1958.
- It became a maxim that treason was next to sacrilege in gravity.
- The Treason Felony Act 1848 prohibits the advocacy of a republic in print.