complicity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   involvement with others in a crime, wrongdoing, or harmful act

   Investigators found no evidence of her complicity in the fraud.

Borrowed from French complicite, from complice, 'accomplice,' ultimately from Latin complex, 'partner or confederate.' That Latin word is related to complicare, 'to fold together,' an image that developed into people being joined together in responsibility or guilt.

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