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In Flagrante Delicto

/ɪn fləˌɡɹæn.teɪ dɪˈlɪk.təʊ/

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What does In Flagrante Delicto mean?

adverb

  1. In the act of committing a misdeed.
  2. While performing sexual activity.

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IPA pronunciation

/ɪn fləˌɡɹæn.teɪ dɪˈlɪk.təʊ/

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With your wife's help you could have caught Aubert in flagrante delicto and killed him on the spot, and the law would have absolved you.
H. B. (Henry Brodribb) IrvingA Book of Remarkable CriminalsProject Gutenberg ebook #446
Before taking in the cargoes they were always fortified with all the necessary papers and documents to show they were engaged in legitimate commerce, so it was only when caught in flagrante delicto that we could hold them.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206