Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A catching or seizing unawares; a discovering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A catching; discovery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
catching in the act;discovery .
Etymologies
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Latin deprehensio. See deprehend.
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