Complicit vs Complicity - What's the difference?
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Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
* 1861 , Henry M. Wheeler, The Slaves' Champion ,
* 1973 , , As If by Magic , Secker and Warburg,
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(senseid)The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
* 1854 , , Hard Times , ch. 32:
(archaic) Complexity.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
* 1861 , Dr. Marx, "Musical Education and Instruction," The Musical Times , vol. 10, no. 220, p. 53:
Complicity is a related term of complicit.
As an adjective complicit
is associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.As a noun complicity is
(The state of being complicit)The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.complicit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)p. 203,
- It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit , guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues,
p. 177:
- "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."
Letters," Time , 7 March:
- Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.
Synonyms
* complicitousDerived terms
* complicitlyReferences
* * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.complicity
English
(wikipedia complicity)Noun
(complicities)- He drew up a placard, offering Twenty Pounds reward for the apprehension of Stephen Blackpool, suspected of complicity in the robbery of Coketown Bank.
- How easy is it, on the other hand, to an enlightened teacher, particularly in the beginning, to elucidate the various forms of rhythm by methodical arrangement in respect of simplicity and increasing complicity or mixture!