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complicity
noun
Latin root: complic Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about complicity at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
Their actions bespoke complicity.
- Complexity.
Origin
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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