committal vs taking

committal

noun
  • The act of entrusting something to someone. 

  • The act of perpetrating an offence. 

  • The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment. 

  • The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation. 

adj
  • Of or relating to commitment. 

  • Of or relating to a committee. 

taking

noun
  • The act by which something is taken. 

  • A seizure of someone's goods or possessions. 

  • Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example). 

  • A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking). 

adj
  • Alluring; attractive. 

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