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Chance-medley   /tʃæns-mˈɛdli/   Listen
Chance-medley

noun
1.
An unpremeditated killing of a human being in self defense.





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... they brightened, faded and dislimned. But Markheim did not pause to watch or understand the transformation. He opened the door and went downstairs very slowly, thinking to himself. His past went soberly before him; he beheld it as it was, ugly and strenuous like a dream, random as chance-medley—a scene of defeat. Life, as he thus reviewed it, tempted him no longer; but on the further side he perceived a quiet haven for his bark. He paused in the passage, and looked into the shop, where the candle still burned ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)


Words linked to "Chance-medley" :   manslaughter, jurisprudence, law


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