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perpetration|pɜːpɪˈtreɪʃən|
[ad. L. perpetrātiōn-em, n. of action from perpetrāre to perpetrate: so in mod.F. (Littré).]
The action of perpetrating or performing (an evil deed); the committing (of a crime); also, the action perpetrated; a wicked or cruel action; an atrocity.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3961 Of a synne dedely..after perpetracionne. 1534Act 26 Hen. VIII, c. 6 §1 The people of Wales..haue..perseuered in perpetracion and commission of diuers & manifold theftes. 1680Counterplots 4 The flagitious Atchievements and most nefandous perpetrations of that Parliament. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian iv, A man whose passions might impel him to the perpetration of almost any crime. 1854J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks iii. i. 136 The savage perpetrations of Zingis and Timour.
†b. Performance (in neutral sense). Obs. rare.
a1631Donne Serm., Matt. v. 16 (1640) 79 In the acting and perpetration of a good work.
c. colloq. The execution of something which the speaker humorously affects to consider very bad or ‘atrocious’, or as execrably performed.
1849Rock Ch. of Fathers I. 215 The whimsical perpetrations of Borromini. |