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4 words match “PERPETRATION”

PERPETRATION n. 2 definitions
The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.
ART n.
Shak. Art and part (Scots Law), share or concern by aiding and abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime, whether by advice or by assistance in the execution; complicity.
BUTCHERY n.
laughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott.
SACK n.
he town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age. Prescott.