Definition of "crimes" []

• Plural form of crime. (noun)

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• "While punishing the slaves for crimes with vastly greater severity than it does their masters for the same crimes, and making a variety of acts _crimes_ in law, which are right, and often _duties_, it persists in refusing to make known to the slaves that complicated and barbarous penal code which loads them with such fearful liabilities."
• "The abuses of power and of wealth will disappear, and there will be a considerable diminution in the number of crimes due to circumstances (_crimes d'occasion_), crimes caused principally by the social environment."
• ""The massacre and the aggressiveness by Israel are ´war crimes, ´ ´crimes against humanity´ and an ´act of genocide, ´ ´Israeli Terror. ´""