particeps criminis
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of particeps criminis
From Latin
Example Sentences
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If he should require his slave to violate any law of the land, he would be held not as a particeps criminis merely, but as a criminal in the first degree.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.
"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
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.
He had joined his fortunes to those of Ovid Nixon—and to those of Ovid's mother; had become particeps criminis, and the requirements of the situation rested heavily upon him.
From Scattergood Baines by Kelland, Clarence Budington
But those few moments of hesitation, she knew it well, had made her particeps criminis, and this consciousness tormented her as the thought tantamount to a crime, which she had permitted to obsess her before.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
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