Freq #24558
Meanings
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noun
involvement with others in a crime, wrongdoing, or harmful act
Investigators found no evidence of her complicity in the fraud.
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Etymology
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.