uncrime

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Etymology

From un- +‎ crime.

Noun

uncrime (countable and uncountable, plural uncrimes)

  1. (rare, uncountable) Absence of crime; crimelessness.
    • 2007, Greg Trine, Terror in Tights:
      “Hey, you're my partner in uncrime. You'd do the same for me.”
    • 2022, John O'Loughlin, About-Face, page 153:
      Not only Supercrime and Crime, but Pseudo-Uncrime and Pseudo-Subcrime on the one hand, in contrast not only to Subevil and Unevil, but to Pseudo-Evil and Pseudo-Superevil on the other hand, []
  2. (rare, countable) That which is not a crime; a noncriminal act.
    • 2008, Simon Cheshire, The Fangs of the Dragon:
      The problem was, how could Harry Lovecraft be linked with these 'un-crimes'?
    • 2016, Alex Berenson, The Wolves, page 239:
      An unperson serving unpunishment for an uncrime.

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