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espionage|ˈɛspɪənɑːʒ, ˈɛspɪənɪdʒ| Also espionnage. [ad. F. espionnage, f. espionner, f. espion spy: see espioun.] The practice of playing the spy, or of employing spies.
1793Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 500 Military preparations, espionages, consultations, conferences, etc. 1825Bentham Ration. Rew. 100 To the word espionage a stigma is attached. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 368 The system of espionage with which they [the ecclesiastical courts] had saturated English society. 1870Deutsch Lit. Rem. (1874) 283 The Dominicans..were especially singled out for the function of holy espionage. |