high treason

Noun

 * 1) Criminal disloyalty to one's country or a sovereign.
 * 2) * 1952, James Avery Joyce: Justice At Work: (this edition Pan 1957) Page 105.
 * Formerly, the punishment for high treason was of a most barbarous character…. Women were burnt. A male traitor was dragged or drawn to the place of execution and hanged; but while still alive, he was cut down and disembowelled. His head was then severed from his body which was quartered. The head and quarters, which were at the Kings disposal, were usually exposed in some conspicuous place—the Temple Bar being a favourite spot—after being boiled in salt to prevent putrification and in cumin seed to prevent birds feasting on them.
 * 1)  In some jurisdictions, a criminal offence of treason including features regarded as more severe than ordinary treason.
 * 2)  A betrayal portrayed as especially shocking.

Usage notes

 * Formerly distinguished from petty treason or petit treason, which was not against the sovereign.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خِيَانَة عُظْمَى
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: дзяржаўная здрада, дзяржздрада, здрада дзяржаве, здрада Радзіме
 * Catalan: alta traïció
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, vlastizrada
 * Danish: højforræderi
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: altperfido, ŝtatperfido
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სახელმწიფო ღალატი, სახელმწიფოს ღალატი, სამშობლოს ღალატი
 * German:
 * Greek: εσχάτη προδοσία
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: ardtréas
 * Italian: alto tradimento
 * Japanese: 大逆罪
 * Latin: perduellio
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: велепредавство
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: høyforræderi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: alta traição
 * Romanian: înaltă trădare
 * Russian:, изме́на Ро́дине,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: alta traición
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: devlete ihanet, vatana ihanet
 * Ukrainian: держа́вна зра́да