See prosecution in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.",
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"ref": "1983 December 10, Larry Goldsmith, “Massachusetts Court Rules on Age of Consent”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 1:",
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"ref": "2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: \"We threw them off. Let's go.\"",
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "muqāḍāh",
"sense": "the institution of legal proceedings against a person",
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"sense": "the institution of legal proceedings against a person",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "the institution of legal proceedings against a person",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "the institution of legal proceedings against a person",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "the institution of legal proceedings against a person",
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"feminine"
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"word": "Strafverfolgung f strafrechtliche Verfolgung"
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"sense": "the institution of legal proceedings against a person",
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"sense": "the institution of legal proceedings against a person",
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"word": "prosecuzione"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "the institution of legal proceedings against a person",
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"word": "azione penale"
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"alt": "きそ",
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"sense": "the institution of legal proceedings against a person",
"word": "起訴"
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"word": "обвине́ние"
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"sense": "the institution of legal proceedings against a person",
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"word": "åtal"
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"word": "абвінава́чванне"
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"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
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"word": "обвинение"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
"tags": [
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"word": "vindicte"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "verfolgende Behörde"
},
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"code": "de",
"english": "criminal prosecution",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Strafverfolgungsbehörde"
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"code": "hi",
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"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
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"word": "検察"
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"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
"tags": [
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"word": "prokuratura"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "strona oskarżająca"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "obvinénije",
"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "обвине́ние"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "storoná obvinénija",
"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сторона́ обвине́ния"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
"tags": [
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"word": "acusación"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
"tags": [
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"word": "fiscalía"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the prosecuting party of the institution of legal proceedings",
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"word": "åklagarsidan"
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{
"code": "uk",
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "dataxazutʻyun",
"sense": "Prosecutor's Office",
"word": "դատախազություն"
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"sense": "Prosecutor's Office",
"word": "अभियोक्ता"
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"sense": "Prosecutor's Office",
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