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COMPLICITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does complicity mean?
• COMPLICITY (noun)
The noun COMPLICITY has 1 sense:
1. guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense
Familiarity information: COMPLICITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("complicity" is a kind of...):
guilt; guiltiness (the state of having committed an offense)
Context examples
The afforestation of the district, however, and its conversion into a royal demesne had clipped off a large section of his estate, while other parts had been confiscated as a punishment for his supposed complicity in an abortive Saxon rising.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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