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delict

/dɪˈlɪkt/

delict noun: a wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.

Noun

delict (plural delicts)

  1. (civil law, Scots law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.
  2. (figuratively) Synonym of misdeed, any wrongful act.
    • Since Mr Ernest Bevin made his plea a generation ago for more coal to give weight to his foreign policy our economic decline has been such as to sap the foundations of our diplomacy. Conversely, I believe that, during the same period, much of our foreign policy has been such as to contribute to...1979 March 31, Nicholas Henderson, Britain's Decline: Its Causes and Consequences
    Synonyms:
    misdeed, any wrongful act
  3. The branch of law dealing in delicts.

delict meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Indonesian

delict in Tamil

சட்டமீறல்

delict in Urdu

بری حرکت, گناہ, خطا

delict in Indonesian

law: wrongful act
delik

Synonyms of delict

All synonyms of delict

Forms of delict

pluraldelicts

Origin of delict

Borrowed from Latin dēlīctum (“fault”), neuter of dēlīctus, past participle of delinquo (“to fail; to be lacking”), from dē- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).

Words formed from delict

Questions about delict

What does delict mean?
Delict means a wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.
What is delict in Tamil?
Delict in Tamil is சட்டமீறல். See Delict meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is delict?
Delict is a noun.
How do you pronounce delict?
Delict is pronounced /dɪˈlɪkt/.
What is the plural of delict?
The plural of delict is delicts.

Words near delict in the dictionary

  1. delicious
  2. deliciously
  3. deliciousness
  4. deliciousnesses
  5. deliciousss
  6. delict
  7. delicts
  8. delictual
  9. delictuous
  10. delid
  11. delidded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delict (page history and authors); delict (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); delict (Urdu 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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