particeps criminis
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of particeps criminis
From Latin
Example Sentences
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Numbers of them stand really in the light of particeps criminis to our inmates, and perhaps were more deserving of this confinement.
From The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences by Quinby, Hosea
Uraga and Roblez again go in advance, the former making further disclosure of his plans to his particeps criminis.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
If the slave trade and slavery are great sins, the North is particeps criminis, and has been from the beginning.
From The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession by Aughey, John H.
You are particeps criminis, and the partaker is as bad as the thief.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 by Various
"But, joking apart, this Black Maria is, so to speak particeps criminis, and the sooner we lose it the better."
From His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by Wells, David Dwight
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