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单词 in flagrant delict
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in flagrant delict
in flagrant delict: in the act of committing an offence or (more generally) a reprehensible act. Now rare. [After post-classical Latin in flagrante delicto in flagrante delicto adv.; compare French en flagrant délit . Quot. 1609 shows the Latin phrase in an English context.] Quot. 1819 shows a variant, in the flagrant delict.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [phrase] > committing a crime > in the act of
with (the) red handc1430
with (later in) the mainour (usually manner)1530
in flagrant delict1819
1609 R. Parsons Quiet Reckoning v. 310 Why doth he now againe, being taken in flagrante delicto, misalleage Nauclerus words after that he had seene and read him.]
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. vi. 149 Taken in the flagrant delict in the avowal of a crime contrary to thine oath.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 137 When an offender was taken in flagrant delict.
1892 G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene i. 4 [She] resorted to all the time-honoured means of catching scholars in flagrant delict.
2005 Canberra Times (Nexis) 4 Feb. a2 Should Howard be caught in flagrant delict (a visually frightening prospect, I grant you) he would simply inform the voters that his Government now supported Gay Rights.
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