Meanings
plural inculpations
- countableuncountableBlame; censure; crimination.
Mutterings fill the town: “our sons have fallen to avenge another’s wife”—perfidious and adulterous Helen. Such inculpation of a commanding general is a novel argument in antiquity, and unusual even in modern times.
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 165
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed
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Origin
- Late Latininculpātiō
- Late Latininculpātiō
- Englishinculpation
Learned borrowing from Late Latin inculpātiō.
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inculpation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inculpation
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