Both Uses of
entrapment
in
The Idiot
- 'Reality' got me so entrapped in its meshes now and again during the past six months, that I forgot my 'sentence' (or perhaps I did not wish to think of it), and actually busied myself with affairs.†
Chpt 3.6 *
- In inviting me here you yourself entrapped me for your own use; you thought I wished to revenge myself upon the prince.†
Chpt 4.2
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 tempted or tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials
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(2)
(entrapment as in: entrapment in a spider's web) something that traps or lures