accompliceshipn.
/əˈkʌmplᵻ(s)ʃɪp/, /əˈkɒmplᵻ(s)ʃɪp/, U.S. /əˈkɑmpləsˌʃɪp/ The fact or state of being an accomplice; complicity.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > criminality > criminal deed > [noun] > assistance
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society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > partnership in
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1795 in W. Sampson Trial W. Jackson 85 Betraying his friend into the most desperate crime, and swearing against his life, in consequence of his accompliceship.
1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde i. v. ix. 260 This craven beggarly companion—Of whose accompliceship to do the deed, And not the deed itself, I speak with shame.
1872 Times 27 Aug. 7/3 The inauguration of the new reign or order that will protect the peasantry from being forced into accompliceship with their tyrants.
1905 A. R. H. Moncrieff Schoolboy Abroad 185 The system of ‘challenges’ which he mentions..I have known to be worked most effectively by a hard-headed Scottish dominie, probably ignorant of his accompliceship with Jesuitry.
1945 Poetry Sept. 343 By working his sleights of hand in the sweat of his brow, Ford shows his accompliceship with a world which labors with frantic effort toward puerile ends.
2005 S. Bedford Quicksands (2006) i. 83 I was property whom she flattered by trying to draw into accompliceship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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