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/ɪndˈaɪtmənt/ Listen

noun

Indictment n.

The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted.

(Law) The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury. Note: To the validity of an indictment a finding by the grand jury is essential, while an information rests only on presentation by the prosecuting authority.

An accusation in general; a formal accusation.

Bill of indictment. See under Bill.

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... allusions to her prison life—her taunts—wouldn't you think she would be glad to forget all that, to put it behind her? Yet every day she talks of it. She never allows me to forget for one instant that she has been in hell—and every word she utters is an indictment of me, a reproach for the cowardice which let her ...

— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes

... this indictment astonished him. Could she still be so stern after the years that ...

— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts

... as Russell remarks, was when the English army was at its lowest condition of neglect; but that simply transfers the indictment to another count. And it is interesting to observe, that Russell's claim for the English army and Todleben's claim for the Russian army come at last to about the same point, namely, that the individual soldier is in ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various

... Charlotte, she forgot the fact, and that Lancelot, though somewhat Wertheresque in some of his features, was not quite so "moral" as that very dull young man, are facts which I wish neither to suppress nor to dwell upon. We may cry "Agreed" here to the indictment, and all its consequences. They are not ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... the Phantom, for that, contrary to the King's peace, it did annoy, assault, and terrify divers persons residing in Cocklane and elsewhere, in the county of Middlesex. The senior counsel objects to his client pleading to the indictment, unless she is tried by her equals in rank, and therefore he moves the indictment be quashed, unless a jury of ghosts be first had and obtained. To this it is replied, that although Fanny the Phantom had originally a right ...

— Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald • Sir Walter Scott

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