high treason

high treason

English

Noun

high treason (uncountable)

1. Criminal disloyalty to one's country.
   • 1952, James Avery Joyce: Justice At Work: (this edition Pan 1957) Page 105.

     Formerly, the punishment for high treason was of a most barbarous character…. Women were burnt. A male traitor was dragged or drawn to the place of execution and hanged; but while still alive, he was cut down and disembowelled. His head was then severed from his body which was quartered. The head and quarters, which were at the Kings disposal, were usually exposed in some conspicuous place—the Temple Bar being a favourite spot—after being boiled in salt to prevent putrification and in cumin seed to prevent birds feasting on them.

Usage notes

• Formerly distinguished from petty treason or petit treason, which was not against the sovereign.

Translations

Criminal disloyalty to one's country

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: خِيَانَة عُظْمَى‎ f (ḵiyāna ʿuẓmā) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: дзяржаўная здрада f (dzjaržaŭnaja zdrada), дзяржздрада f (dzjaržzdrada), здрада дзяржаве f (zdrada dzjaržavje), здрада Радзіме f (zdrada Radzimje) Catalan: alta traïció f Chinese: Mandarin: 叛國罪／叛国罪 (zh) (pànguózuì) Czech: velezrada (cs) f, vlastizrada f Danish: højforræderi n Dutch: hoogverraad (nl) Esperanto: altperfido, ŝtatperfido Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: maanpetos (fi) French: haute trahison (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Hochverrat (de) m Hungarian: felségárulás, hazaárulás (hu) Icelandic: landráð (is) n pl Irish: ardtréas m Italian: alto tradimento Japanese: 大逆罪 (たいぎゃくざい, taigyakuzai) Latin: perduellio Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: велепредавство n (velepredavstvo) Norwegian: Bokmål: høyforræderi n Polish: zdrada stanu (pl) f Portuguese: alta traição f Romanian: înaltă trădare f Russian: госуда́рственная изме́на (ru) f (gosudárstvennaja izména), изме́на Ро́дине f (izména Ródine), госизме́на (ru) f (gosizména) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: alta traición f Swedish: högförräderi n Turkish: devlete ihanet, vatana ihanet Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

References

• high treason at OneLook Dictionary Search
• treason at OneLook Dictionary Search
• treason in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Further reading

• high treason on Wikipedia.Wikipedia