- Noun: Barratry
- the purchase or sale of office or preferment in church or state
- an unlawful act or fraudulent breach of duty by a master of a ship or by the mariners to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo
- the persistent incitement of litigation
- Synonyms:
- contravention
- dereliction
- disregard
- infraction
- infringement
- noncompliance
- offense
- violation
- Usage:
- “But Captain Krausa listened quietly, then answered with real poetry–he accused the Losian of every crime from barratry to mopery and dopery in the spaceways.”
- Encountered:
- While reading Robert A. Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy.
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Is that where ‘barrister’ came from?