[f. L. type *complicitās, -ātem, n. of state f. complex, -plicem: cf. simplicitās, duplicitās; in mod. F. complicité.]
1. The being an accomplice; partnership in an evil action.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Complicity, a consenting or partnership in evil. [Not in Johnson.]
1818. Hallam, Mid. Ages, viii. (L.). The charge … of complicity in the designs of his patron, was never openly repelled.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., (1858), II. vi. 73. The eagerness of the political reformers to clear themselves from complicity with heterodoxy.
1878. Black, Green Past., xxiii. 187. If you can clear yourself of all complicity in the matter.
2. State of being complex or involved; = COMPLEXITY.
1847. Craig, Complicity, complexity; state of being involved.
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, Ability, Wks. (Bohn), II. 36. In all the complicity and delay incident to the several series of means they employ.
1888. Jrnl. Education, XX. Jan., 31/2. Carrying it [physical education] on, by a uniform series of movements, with increasing complicity and energy according to the increasing age of his pupils.
