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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being complicated.
- noun A complication.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being complex or intricate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A state of being complicate or intricate.
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- noun The state of being
complex ;entanglement . - noun That which is and renders complex;
intricacy ;complication .
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Examples
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Aliyev who escaped to Austria in the middle of 2007 was accused by the Kazakh court of several grave crimes, such as complicacy of kidnappings, tortures and murders and attempts of a coup.
unknown title 2009
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The academic and the aesthetic thus fuse into a unique hermeneutic, questioning whose methodological validity is risking complicacy.
Archive 2009-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The academic and the aesthetic thus fuse into a unique hermeneutic, questioning whose methodological validity is risking complicacy.
Seventy tomes of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are epitome of a discursive culture Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Or it is just complicacy: President Karzai of Afghanistan was a lobbyist for Gulf Oil's pipeline plans, and does one suspect that the pipeline will be built as soon as his power is consolidated?
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OWNER OF INDUSTRIES can only file a separate suit for compensation in separate CIVIL COURT CREATING MORE complicacy for life long litigation WITH OF NO RESULT .
The CBA’s Support for the Rule of Law in Developing Countries — Slaw 2007
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Moreover, I need hardly point out that the native population of the capital of the Philippines by no means represents the true native character, to comprehend which, so far as its complicacy can be fathomed, one must penetrate into and reside for years in the interior of the Colony, as I have done, in places where extraneous influences have, as yet, produced no effect.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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The venality of the conqueror's administration, the judicial complicacy, want of public works, weak imperial government, and arrogant local rule tended to dismember the once powerful Spanish Empire.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Everything was simple at Nancepean except the parishioners; but Mark was still too young and too simple himself to apprehend their complicacy.
The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927
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Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L. _In a former publication I have shown that an antagonism had developed between Shakespeare and Chapman as early as the year 1594, and in a more recent one have shown Matthew Roydon's complicacy with Chapman in his hostility to Shakespeare, and also Shakespeare's cognizance of it.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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[67] The higher complicacy of physiological order stamps on our minds more impressively the fact of the Divine wisdom; while the subserviency of this order to ends of happiness in the animal creation, brings before us the beneficence of the Designer.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855
qms commented on the word complicacy
My recipes feature efficacy
Eschewing all fuss and complicacy.
A poulet compliqué
Would ruin my day.
I'll stew up my bird in a fricassee.
September 8, 2016