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accessory after the fact

accessory after the fact noun: an individual who assists someone who has committed a crime so as to protect them from legal prosecution.

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

accessory after the fact meaning in Tamil

accessory after the fact in Tamil

குற்றம் புரியப்பட்ட பின் துணைநிற்பவர்

Forms of accessory after the fact

pluralaccessories after the fact
alternative formaccessary after the fact

Questions about accessory after the fact

What does accessory after the fact mean?
Accessory after the fact means an individual who assists someone who has committed a crime so as to protect them from legal prosecution.
What is accessory after the fact in Tamil?
Accessory after the fact in Tamil is குற்றம் புரியப்பட்ட பின் துணைநிற்பவர். See Accessory after the fact meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is accessory after the fact?
Accessory after the fact is a noun.
What is the plural of accessory after the fact?
The plural of accessory after the fact is accessories after the fact.

Words near accessory after the fact in the dictionary

  1. accessorized
  2. accessorizes
  3. accessorizing
  4. accessors
  5. accessory
  6. accessory after the fact
  7. accessory battery
  8. accessory before the fact
  9. accessory breathing
  10. accessory cloud
  11. accessory clouds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accessory after the fact (page history and authors); accessory after the fact (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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