Meaning and example
underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful
The passage used "subornation" to mean underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.058 places subornation in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 52.4% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 52.3%
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- 52.6%
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a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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