Accusation

1. n. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
2. n. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.