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arraignment
[ uh-reyn-muhnt ]
noun
- Law. an act or instance of bringing someone before a criminal court to hear an indictment, or formal charge, against them and to enter a plea in response to that charge:
At her arraignment Crane pleaded not guilty, and the trial was set for May 21.
- a calling into question or a finding fault, especially with respect to the value or virtue of something; critical examination:
In his arraignment of the basic weaknesses in the nation's social fabric, he drew special attention to racism.
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- non·ar·raign·ment noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of arraignment1
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Example Sentences
His attorney says he will be pleading not guilty at his arraignment in December.
The defendant was led off pending arraignment on an indictment, to which he is expected to plead not guilty.
The arraignment ended with us being everything we truly are and nothing we are really not.
The arraignment concluded as usual, with the exception of the judge inquiring about classified material.
The arraignment of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was just another hearing in Manhattan federal court.
Under the force of this triple arraignment the outlaw leader dropped to his seat, staggered and silenced.
A tide of dull color had risen to Miss Reids face as she listened to Portias blunt arraignment.
And his face was white, his eyes burning, when at night he leaned forward to fling forth to his hearers his final arraignment.
The record of persecution during the first five years of the Kulturkampf is an appalling arraignment of its perpetrators.
Part of his arraignment was that not a decade had passed that the North had not persecuted the South on account of her slaves.
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