treasonable
IPA: trˈizʌnʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Involving or constituting treason.
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Examples of "treasonable" in Sentences
- Electoral fraud is treasonable and criminal.
- Both acts are treasonable punishable by death.
- Failure to do so was to be treated as treasonable.
- Those words would have been called treasonable to the people of France.
- The entries confirm in every particular the statements of Truxton, Bollman, and others, and repudiate the idea of treasonable designs.
- The second Exclusion Bill was founded, not on his religion, but on his politics, that is, his treasonable connection with the King of France.
- Since then, I have made it my business to establish contacts and relationships in Beijing that would be called treasonable, and for which I should be shot.
- Grand Master the Duke of Cumberland, what must be called a treasonable conspiracy through the Orange lodges and even through Orangemen who were actually serving in the King's Army.
- All those who were in any manner connected with the contemplated expedition disclaimed the idea of treasonable designs, averring that, if such were the views of Colonel Burr, they had been deceived.
- Blennerhasset's Island: since the only acts which could be called treasonable had occurred elsewhere, the court declared the evidence insufficient, and there was nothing for the jury to do but to bring him in not guilty.
- Government alleged that these persons had been engaged in treasonable conspiracies, and, the President having exercised his legitimate right in suspending the Habeas Corpus Act, he was not prepared to say that the detention of those persons was illegal, or demanded more decided
- Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool.
- The unfortunate plant-cutters, who had merely been imprisoned, and such of them dismissed from time to time as would give assurance of penitence, and promise a peaceable demeanor, were now proceeded against with the utmost rigor, for what the king was pleased to call their treasonable conduct.
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