flagrante delicto

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  1. adverb In the very act of committing an offense; red-handed.
  2. adverb In the act of having sex.

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  1. Medieval Latin flagrante dēlictō, while the crime is blazing : flagrante, ablative of flagrāns, blazing + dēlictō, ablative of dēlictum, offense.

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  1. Latin, literally the crime being flagrant, that is, actually in performance: flagrante, ablative (agreeing with the noun) of flagran(t-)s, flagrant (see flagrant, 3); delicto, ablative abs. of delictum, crime: see delict.
 

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/fləˈgrænti dəˈlɪktə/
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