Etymograph

English

facecrime

From face + crime.

Formed from face + crime

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

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Latin faciēs ‘form’

Late Latin facia

Old French face

Middle English face

English face

Latin crīmen ‘charge, crime’

Old French crime

Middle English cryme ‘crime’

English crime

The story

Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to the act of having a facial expression indicating an unacceptable state of mind.

Today it means

noun A facial expression considered unacceptable.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / facecrime