noun
- Law.
- a crime, especially high treason, committed against the sovereign power.
- an offense that violates the dignity of a ruler.
- an attack on any custom, institution, belief, etc., held sacred or revered by numbers of people: Her speech against Mother’s Day was criticized as lese majesty.
noun
- any of various offences committed against the sovereign power in a state; treason
- an attack on authority or position
n.“offense against sovereign authority, treason,” 1530s (mid-15c. as an Anglo-French word), from French lèse-majesté, from Latin laesa majestos “violated majesty,” from laesus, past participle of laedere “to hurt, injure, damage, offend, insult,” of unknown origin.