high treason in English

treachery against the state, attempt to overthrow the government to which one owes allegiance

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1. 17 He be arraign for high treason.

2. 6 He was arraigned for high treason.

3. 7 She was arraigned for high treason.

4. William Wallace, you stand in taint of high treason.

5. I' m engaged in high treason with all means available to me

6. Tho' jealous, Thou Arraignest for high treason Our Babylonian banquets of the reason

7. Subsequently, in 1996, 8 politicians were indicted for high treason and the massacre.

8. Attaint means to pass sentence of attainder or convicted of high treason or felony

9. The Reasonableness of Parliamentary Proceedings, by Attainders, Banishments, Pains and Penalties, in Cases of High Treason

10. The prosecutor accused them of high treason, refusal of military service, espionage, and slander of the most holy church.

11. The Reasonableness of Parliamentary Proceedings, by Attainders, Banishments, Pains and Penalties, in Cases of High Treason, Shewn by Various the Reign of Edward II

12. John King, two Presbyterian ministers, who were executed for high-treason and rebellion at Edinburgh, August the 14th, 1679 with Animadversions, and the history of the Archbishop of St

13. A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at Criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

14. The Act of Supremacy in 1534 declared that the King was "the only Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England" and the Treasons Act 1534 made it high treason, punishable by death, to refuse the Oath of Supremacy acknowledging the King as such.