Prosecution vs Prosecutive - What's the difference?
prosecution | prosecutive |
The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.
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(lb) The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
(lb) The prosecuting party.
*{{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, first=Ed, last=Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian
, title= (legal) Of or pertaining to prosecution.
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As a noun prosecution
is the act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.As an adjective prosecutive is
(legal) of or pertaining to prosecution.prosecution
English
Noun
(en noun)Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, passage=The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."}}
Anagrams
*prosecutive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Following the ATF raid, the prosecutive focus shifted to-building cases against any Branch Davidians who were responsible for killing and wounding ATF agents, or attempting to do so, during the two shootouts on February 28.
