lese majesty

1. 1.

   a crime that undermines the offender's government

   Synonymstreasonhigh treason

   Broadercrime

Questions about lese majesty

What does lese majesty mean?

lese majesty means "a crime that undermines the offender's government".

What is another word for lese majesty?

Close synonyms include treason, high treason. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lese majesty a common word?

lese majesty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.