arson
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
arson/ˈɑːsn/
▶noun the criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property.
– derivatives
arsonist noun.
arsonist noun.
– origin C17: an Anglo-Norman Fr. legal term, from med. L. arsio(n-), from L. ardere ‘to burn’.
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