complice
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of complice
1425–75; late Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin complice-, oblique stem of complex confederate (formation modeled on simplex simplex ), equivalent to com- com- + -plex -fold
Example Sentences
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None shall dare to call me complice, since the little I once called my own is lost.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
William d'Owe was accused in a Councell holden at Salisbury, to bee a complice of this Treason.
From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John
"Il est tempts que cette raison injustement d�grad�e quitte un ton pusillamine qui la rendront complice du mensonge et du d�lire."
From Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France by Cushing, Max Pearson
Thus Fr. beaupré, from Eng. bowsprit, cannot conceivably have been associated with a fair meadow; and accomplice, for complice, Lat. complex, complic-, can hardly have been confused with accomplish.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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