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Definition of Eavesdropping
1. n. The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet for private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law.
Definition of Eavesdropping
1. Verb. (present participle of eavesdrop) ¹
2. Noun. Listening secretly to private conversation of others. ¹
3. Noun. (''telecoms'') The interception of electronic communication. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eavesdropping
1. eavesdrop [v] - See also: eavesdrop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eavesdropping
Literary usage of Eavesdropping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1888)
"eavesdropping is listening under walls and windows, or the eaves of houses, ...
Bishop dein Massachusetts there seems at one fines eavesdropping to consist ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
""eavesdropping" consists in privately listening, but not looking or peeping, into
the affairs of ... eavesdropping is an indictable offense in Pennsylvania, ..."
3. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1858)
"eavesdropping. § 274. eavesdropping is an offe^pe at common law.1 As such it has
been recognized in this country.2 It consists in the nuisance of hanging ..."
4. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"ONE IB GUILTY or eavesdropping WHO SECRETLY AND STEALTHILY approaches the room
... INDICTMENT for eavesdropping. The facts are stated in the opinion. ..."
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