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Definition of Treasonable
1. Adjective. Having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor. "A lying traitorous insurrectionist"
Similar to: Disloyal
Derivative terms: Faithlessness, Traitor, Traitorousness, Treason, Treason, Unfaithfulness
Definition of Treasonable
1. a. Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt.
Definition of Treasonable
1. Adjective. involving, or constituting treason ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Treasonable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Treasonable
Literary usage of Treasonable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley, William Wait, William Blackstone (1875)
"r * oo i * How far mere words, spoken by an individual, and not relative to any
treasonable act or design then in agitation, shall amount to trea- ..."
2. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1901)
"A SECRETARY of State has, at common law, the power to issue a warrant of commitment
for " treasonable practices ;" and where by Act of Parliament the ..."
3. Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr (late Vice President of the by Harman Blennerhassett, Israel Smith, David Robertson (1808)
"But whether this treasonable intention be really imputable to the plan or not,
it is admitted that it must have been carried into execution by an open ..."
4. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1839)
"... the more effectual Suppression of Societies established for seditious and
treasonable Purposes, and for preventing treasonable and seditious Practices, ..."
5. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1906)
"Both these proclamations were laid before Parliament, and Lord Grenville introduced
into the House of treasonable Lords a bill founded ..."
6. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"Case of JAMES SKENE, for treasonable Opinions and Declarations:* 32 ... The Jury
unanimously found the prisoner " guilty of the treasonable crimes and ..."
7. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Proceedings in Parliament against Sir ADAM BLAIR,* and others, on an Impeachment
of High Treason, for dispersing a seditious and treasonable Paper, ..."
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