All 11 Uses
complicity
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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- She was able to see the name of the Estimable Señorita Rebeca Buendia, written in the same methodical hand, with the same green ink, and the same delicacy of words with which the instructions for the operation of the pianola were written, and she folded the letter with the tips of her fingers and hid it in her bosom, looking at Amparo Moscote with an expression of endless and unconditional gratitude and a silent promise of complicity unto death.†
Chpt 4complicity = act of helping in a crime or offense
- Aureliano tried to relive the times when they slept in the same room, tried to revive the complicity of childhood, but Jose Arcadio had forgotten about it, because life at sea had saturated his memory with too many things to remember.†
Chpt 5
- The only relatives who knew about it were Jose Arcadio and Rebeca, with whom Arcadio maintained close relations at that time, based not so much on kinship as on complicity.†
Chpt 6 *
- Although they seemed to ignore what both of them knew and what each one knew that the other knew, from that night on they were yoked together in an inviolable complicity.†
Chpt 8
- The only affection that prevailed against time and the war was that which he had felt for his brother Jose Arcadio when they both were children, and it was not based on love but on complicity.†
Chpt 9
- He even accused Father Antonio Isabel of complicity for having marked his sons with indelible ashes so that they could be identified by their enemies.†
Chpt 12
- So that when she noticed the complicity between father and daughter the only promise she extracted from Aureliano Segundo was that he would never take Meme to Petra Cotes's house.†
Chpt 14
- They made love twice a week for more than three months, protected by the innocent complicity of Aureliano Segundo, who believed without suspicion in his daughter's alibis simply in order to set her free from her mother's rigidity.†
Chpt 14
- She was so sure of herself, so anchored in her solitude that Aureliano Segundo had the impression that no link existed between them anymore, that the comradeship and the complicity were nothing but an illusion of the past.†
Chpt 14
- Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.†
Chpt 17
- So that Aureliano and Gabriel were linked by a kind of complicity based on real facts that no one believed in, and which had affected their lives to the point that both of them found themselves off course in the tide of a world that had ended and of which only the nostalgia remained.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(complicit) act of helping in a crime or offense
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)