Usually means: Accusation or reporting of wrongdoing.
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  1. delation: Merriam-Webster
  2. delation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. delation: Wordnik
  5. delation: Wiktionary
  6. Delation, delation: Dictionary.com
  7. Delation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. delation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Delation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. delation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. delation: FreeDictionary.org
  12. delation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. delation: Legal dictionary

(Note: See delate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (delation)

noun:  (obsolete) Conveyance.
noun:  (law) An accusation or charge brought against someone, especially by an informer; the act of accusing someone.

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