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 Translation for 'high treason' from English to French
NOUN   high treason | -
SYNO high treason | lese majesty | treason
dr.
haute trahison {f}
high treason
Partial Matches
dr.
trahison {f}
treason
21
grand {adj}high
élevé {adj}high
haut {adj} {adv}high
29
mil.
haut commandement {m}
high command
hydro.naut.
marée {f} haute
high tide
sport
plongeur {m} de haut vol
high diver
d'une hauteur démesurée {adj}excessively high
vêt.
brésilien {adj} [slip, maillot de bain]
high-cut
drog.
se défoncer [fam.]
to get high
brisant {adj}high-explosive
despotique {adj}high-handed
despotiquement {adv}high-handedly
vêt.
haute couture {f}
high fashion
gratin {m} [fam.] [fig.] [élite]high society
chasse
affut {m} perché [aussi : affût]
high seat
arch.arts
haut-relief {m}
high relief
tech.
difficile à entretenir {adj}
high-maintenance
point {m} culminant [de réunion, vacances, soirée, spectacle]high point
mus.
aigu {m} [de voix]
high notes {pl}
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Usage Examples English
  • Also, the President can be impeached for high treason (newly defined in the Constitution) or any serious infringement of the Constitution.
  • The Democratic Party of the Left (successor to the Communist Party) started the procedure of impeachment (Presidents of Italy can be impeached only for high treason against the state or for an attempt to overthrow the Constitution).
  • Mass public support led to the acquittal of 13 captured rebels at their high treason trials in Melbourne.
  • Early in the Long Parliament, the house overwhelmingly accused Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, of high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors.
  • In the 1924 national election, the Munich cultural journal "Süddeutsche Monatshefte" published a series of articles blaming the SPD and trade unions for Germany's defeat in World War I, which came out during the trial of Adolf Hitler and Ludendorff for high treason following the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.

  • Strafford had become the principal target of the Parliamentarians, particularly John Pym, and he went on trial for high treason on 22 March 1641.
  • The National Assembly elects the members of a nine-member High Court of Justice that judges high-ranking members of government in the event they are charged with high treason or harming national security.
  • ... disloyalty) against one's monarch was known as "high treason" and treason against a lesser superior was "petty treason".
  • In 1916 after Casement's conviction for high treason, the British government circulated alleged photographs of pages of the diary to individuals campaigning for the commutation of Casement's death sentence.
  • Further to the charges of this arrest, the Senate also passed a resolution petitioning that Musharraf be charged with high treason in relation to the events of 2007.

  • When the Japanese discovered, by accident, that Siebold had a map of the northern parts of Japan, the government accused him of high treason and of being a spy for Russia.
  • Those who would not swear "whether they have arms, or not" could be "immediately killed" by field trial "before two witnesses" on a charge of high treason.
  • The legislature abolished the death penalty for high treason in war and war-crimes in 1979.
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