treason : Idioms & Phrases
Index
High treason
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noun a crime that undermines the offender's government
lese majesty; treason.
WordNet
- treason against the sovereign or the state, the highest civil offense. See
Treason .✍ It is now sufficient to speak of high treason as treason simply, seeing that petty treason, as a distinct offense, has been abolished. Mozley & W.
Webster 1913
Petit treason
- formerly, in England, the crime of killing a person to whom the offender owed duty or subjection, as one's husband, master, mistress, etc. The crime is now not distinguished from murder.
