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English Dictionary: Crime by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crime
n
  1. (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes"
    Synonym(s): crime, offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, offence, law-breaking
  2. an evil act not necessarily punishable by law; "crimes of the heart"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Crime \Crime\ (kr[imac]m), n.[F. crime, fr. L. crimen judicial
      decision, that which is subjected to such a decision, charge,
      fault, crime, fr. the root of cernere to decide judicially.
      See {Certain}.]
      1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission
            of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden
            by law.
  
      2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a
            misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence,
            also, any aggravated offense against morality or the
            public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. [bd]To part
            error from crime.[b8] --Tennyson.
  
      Note: Crimes, in the English common law, are grave offenses
               which were originally capitally punished (murder, rape,
               robbery, arson, burglary, and larceny), as
               distinguished from misdemeanors, which are offenses of
               a lighter grade. See {Misdemeanors}.
  
      3. Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
  
                     No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
      4. That which occasion crime. [Obs.]
  
                     The tree of life, the crime of our first father's
                     fall.                                                --Spenser.
  
      {Capital crime}, a crime punishable with death.
  
      Syn: Sin; vice; iniquity; wrong.
  
      Usage: {Crime}, {Sin},{Vice}. Sin is the generic term,
                  embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically
                  denoting an offense as committed against God. Crime is
                  strictly a violation of law either human or divine;
                  but in present usage the term is commonly applied to
                  actions contrary to the laws of the State. Vice is
                  more distinctively that which springs from the
                  inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which
                  are in themselves innocent. Thus intemperance,
                  unchastity, duplicity, etc., are vices; while murder,
                  forgery, etc., which spring from the indulgence of
                  selfish passions, are crimes.
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