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accessories after the fact

accessories after the fact is the plural of accessory after the fact.

Meaning of accessory after the fact

Noun

accessory after the fact (plural accessories after the fact)

  1. An individual who assists someone who has committed a crime so as to protect them from legal prosecution.
    • […] some of that atrocious wickedness in Jones, […] might perhaps be derived from the encouragement he had received from this fellow, who […] had been what the law calls an accessary^([sic]) after the fact […]1749, Henry Fielding, chapter II, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III

Questions about accessories after the fact

What is accessories after the fact the plural of?
Accessories after the fact is the plural of accessory after the fact.

Words near accessories after the fact in the dictionary

  1. accessorial service
  2. accessorial services
  3. accessorially
  4. accessorials
  5. accessories
  6. accessories after the fact
  7. accessories before the fact
  8. accessorily
  9. accessoriness
  10. accessorise
  11. accessorised

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