Examples of treason in a Sentence
Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
Fries was arrested, convicted of treason and sentenced to hang.
—Bill Hamilton, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2025
Opposition members of parliament, from the party of the former President Petro Poroshenko, accused Zelensky of treason.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Through the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021, the annual defense policy bill, Congress appointed a commission to recommend new names for bases, streets and other monuments that bore the names of Confederate soldiers who committed treason and fought against U.S. soldiers in the Civil War.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Treason.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treason. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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Middle English tresoun "treason," from early French traisun (same meaning), from Latin tradition-, traditio "the action of handing over, tradition, betrayal," from tradere "to hand over, betray," from tra-, trans- "across" and dare "to give" — related to tradition, traitor
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treason
noun
Anglo-French treison crime of violence against a person to whom allegiance is owed, literally, betrayal, from Old French traïson, from traïr to betray, from Latin tradere to hand over, surrender
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