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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Complicity \Com*plic"i*ty\, n.; pl. Complicities. [F. complicit['e].] The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French complicité, from Old French complice "accomplice, comrade, companion" (14c.), from Late Latin complicem, accusative of complex "partner, confederate," from Latin complicare "to fold together" (see complicate; also compare accomplice).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (senseid en The state of being complicit)The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing. 2 (context archaic English) complexity.''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989.
WordNet
n. guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense
Wikipedia
Complicity is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks. It was published in 1993.
Complicity (or Retribution in the US market) is a 2000 film based on the novel Complicity by Iain Banks. The screenplay was written by Bryan Elsley. It was directed by Gavin Millar. These two had previously adapted Banks's The Crow Road into a TV serial.
Scenes were filmed in Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth (particularly Inverkeithing, South Queensferry, and Inchmickery), and in Dunning, Glenturret, Kippen, Lochgoilhead, Lochailort, Glen Coe, and on Rannoch Moor. One scene from the film was set in the Snaffle Bit bar in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, where actual bar staff and customers were used.
An individual is complicit in a crime if he is aware of its occurrence and has the ability to stop or report the crime, but fails to do so. As such, the individual effectively allows criminals to carry out a crime despite potentially being able to stop it from happening, either directly or by contacting the authorities. The offender is a de facto accessory to the crime, rather than an innocent bystander.
Law relating to complicity varies. Usually complicity is not a crime although this sometimes conflicts with popular perception. At a certain point a person that is complicit in a crime may become a conspirator depending on the degree of involvement by the individual and whether a crime was completed or not.
Complicity is a doctrine that operates to hold persons criminally responsible for the acts of others. Complicity encompasses accessorial and conspiratorial liability. Accessorial liability is frequently referred to as accomplice liability.
An accomplice is a person who helps another person commit a crime, Accomplice liability involves primary actors who actually participate in the commission of the crime and secondary actors who aid and encourage the primary actors. The aid can be either physical or psychological. The secondary actors are called accomplices.
Usage examples of "complicity".
He had no idea why the seer had rushed him, but the boy had visions of guards coming into the workshop, of his friends thrown in Abaddon with Verlis for their complicity in his traitorous deeds.
She enumerated a new list of extraordinary occurrences that had been cited in the acta and could be explained only as the consequences of shameless complicity between the girl and the demon.
But you never gave me time to explain that his complicity was the price he paid the blackmailer instead of money!
There seemed to be an entangledness, a complicity between any sufficiently detailed model and the actual dance of subatomic interaction.
When she looks over at him, lifting her eyes from the hazardless road, it is with all the dismay of care: we are abducting each other, throwing away everything in complicity.
He also knows exactly how Alfred and I arrived here and your complicity in the transportation.
If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
But we have no apparitions cautioning the Church against, say, accepting the delusion of an Earth-centred Universe, or warning it of complicity with Nazi Germany - two matters of considerable moral as well as historical import, on which Pope John Paul II, to his credit, has admitted that the Church has erred.
I thought of the million drifting Morelands suddenly shocked into a realization of the desperate plight of things and of priceless chances lost forever in the past and of their own ill-defined but certain complicity in the disaster.
Simply because the idea of compromise with the Nihilists aroused at once the idea of complicity!
The nature of the circumvention does imply a degree of internal complicity, certainly knowledge of the security monitor procedures was compromised.
The harm of his complicity in Holt's betrayals wasn't so easily dismissed.
We have seen how this was done and under what conditions, with what compliances and with what complicity, with what deference to clamorous opinion, with what docility in the presence of rioters, with what submission to the orders of the mob, with what a deluge of sentimental phrases and commonplace abstractions.
To outrage Right, to suppress the Assembly, to abolish the Constitution, to strangle the Republic, to overthrow the Nation, to sully the Flag, to dishonor the Army, to suborn the Clergy and the Magistracy, to succeed, to triumph, to govern, to administer, to exile, to banish, to transport, to ruin, to assassinate, to reign, with such complicities that the law at last resembles a foul bed of corruption.
Well, she knew now--knew weaknesses and strengths she had not dreamed of, and the deep discord and still deeper complicities between what thought in her and what blindly wanted.