[ad. F. criminalité or med.L. crīminālitās (see Du Cange), f. crīminālis CRIMINAL: see -ITY.] The quality or fact of being criminal.

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1611.  Cotgr., Criminalité, Criminalitie; a criminal action, case, or cause.

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1774.  Pennant, Tour Scot. in 1772, 345. From habit it lost all the appearance of criminality.

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1869.  Lecky, Europ. Mor., I. iii. 474. That doctrine of the criminality of error.

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1869.  J. Greenwood, 7 Curses Lond., 133. The growth of juvenile criminality.

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  b.  (with pl.) A criminal act or practice.

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1849.  Stovel, Canne’s Necess., Introd. 30. Alleged as a chief point in the criminalities imputed to the Welsh.

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