Complicity Definition

kəm-plĭsĭ-tē
complicities
noun
The fact or state of being an accomplice; partnership in wrongdoing.
Webster's New World

​The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.

Wiktionary

(archaic) Complexity.

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complicity
Plural:
complicities

Origin of Complicity

  • From French complicité, from Middle French, from Old French complice (“accomplice”), from Late Latin complic-, stem of complex (“partner, confederate”), from Latin complicō (“fold together”)

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Complicity Sentence Examples

  • In the following February, however, Midhat was dismissed and banished for supposed complicity in the murder of Abdul Aziz.

  • A false accusation of complicity in an assassination, and the intrigues of members of his own Company, clouded his last months, and on the 18th of July 1697 he passed away.

  • When the cortes met, on the 29th of September, the opposition accused King Carlos of complicity in grave financial scandals.

  • Fournier was unjustly charged with complicity in the crime.

  • Therefore, he dreaded Cynthia seeking his complicity in opposing Randy's march to glory.

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