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What does in flagrante delicto mean?

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Adverb
  1. In the act of committing a misdeed.
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Only one vessel had been captured in flagrante delicto after a sharp fight, and had been condemned as a lawful prize.
So hot were we about it that we noted not our master coming upon us and finding us in flagrante delicto.
Most Leda paintings, even when in flagrante delicto, show only the swan's neck and wings.
As a consequence Mr. Austen Leigh was despatched to watch, and, if possible, to catch the offenders in flagrante delicto.
Any citizen who is charged with a crime or arrested in flagrante delicto shall be brought before a justice of the peace.
It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

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