The Only Use of
entrapment
in
Jane Eyre
- This girl," he continued, looking at me, "knew no more than you, Wood, of the disgusting secret: she thought all was fair and legal and never dreamt she was going to be entrapped into a feigned union with a defrauded wretch, already bound to a bad, mad, and embruted partner!†
p. 337.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(entrapment as in: claimed legal entrapment) law: a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not lured into it by law enforcement officials
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(2)
(entrapment as in: entrapment in a spider's web) something that traps or lures