accessorinessn.

1660 Vines's Treat. Lords-supper (new ed.) xxxii. 300 Allowance and consent defiles by accessoriness unto the sin.

1693 R. Fleming Confirming Work Relig. 114 He sees, and is sure that he must..have a just abhorrence of that way, wherein he should be inevitably Involved in a Virtual Consent, and Accessoriness to all that Cruelty.

1869 Friend 7 Feb. 206/1 Both the South and North participated—perhaps in even measure in accessoriness to the iniquity—in the arresting scourge of a long-suffering..Father and God.

1899 J. Oxenham Rising Fortunes iii. 21 Adam, with a feeling of criminal accessoriness, ordered him more whisky.

1994 K. Lüderssen in U. Ewald New Definitions of Crime 72 By no means does the civil law allow everything that is not illegal under the criminal law (the other issues of accessoriness will have to be separated from this).

1681 Field of Bloud 2 By reducing his Favourites, from a Principality, to a pitch only of Accessoriness in the Government, he regain'd the Love of his People.

1776 A. Wilson Med. Res. Hysterics To Oxford & Cambridge, p. xvii The discourse on the causes of the circulation of the blood..tends so directly to illustrate the necessary accessoriness of this vital element of our constitutions, to the discharge of that important work.

1896 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 7 345 The preceding pages have made apparent, we hope, the accessoriness of doctrinal beliefs in regeneration.

1993 M. Tamen Manners of Interpr. iv. 128 It distinguishes between a position of dominance and determination and a position of subsidariness and accessoriness.