Crossword clues for perpetration
perpetration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perpetration \Per`pe*tra"tion\, n. [L. perpetratio: cf. F. perp['e]tration.]
The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.
The thing perpetrated; an evil action.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Late Latin perpetrationem (nominative perpetratio) "an accomplishing, performing," noun of action from past participle stem of perpetrare "to perform, accomplish" (see perpetrate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of perpetrate 2 Something (such as a crime) that is perpetrated
WordNet
n. the act of committing a crime [syn: commission, committal]
Usage examples of "perpetration".
These four individuals formed, in conjunction with Harrel, the design of assassinating the First Consul, and the time fixed for the perpetration of the deed was one evening when Bonaparte intended to visit the opera.
Men may be ever so free from the perpetration of bloody deeds, personally, but their failure to object to any outrageous crime makes them particeps crimines.
Jose was a Piman, and she immediately connected Jose with the perpetration, or at least the planning of her abduction.
A romantic obscurity would have hung over the expedition to Egypt, and he would have escaped the perpetration of those crimes which have incarnadined his soul with a deeper dye than that of the purple for which he committed themthose acts of perfidy, midnight murder, usurpation, and remorseless tyranny, which have consigned his name to universal execration, now and forever.
A conspiracy was at length formed against his life, at the head of which was his own uncle, Robert Stewart, Earl of Athol, who, being too old himself for the perpetration of the deed of blood, instigated his grandson, Sir Robert Stewart, together with Sir Robert Graham, and others of less note, to commit the deed.
The act and the expression upon the man's face proclaimed his intention, and so Curtiss drew back again waiting for the perpetration of the deed that he knew was coming.
Even after the perpetration of great enormities, you do not suffer the criminal to be slain untried.
Some of them shook their fists in return, others waved, and many made the emphatic gesture with the palm of the hand that is so insulting that in later years its perpetration was to become an imprisonable offence.
I looked at the once lively, rattlepated, humorous little doctor—associated in my remembrance with the perpetration of incorrigible social indiscretions and innumerable boyish jokes—and I saw nothing left of his former self, but the old tendency to vulgar smartness in his dress.