entrapment

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

From entrap + -ment.

The swift evasions of the nets were graceful and so timed that many times the meshes grazed the skin of the fighter who fled entrapment. — Plague Ship, Andre Norton
The plunge into this pit I had avoided by the merest of accidents, I knew that surprise, or entrapment into torment, formed an important portion of all the grotesquerie of these dungeon deaths. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe

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