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tortious (adj.)
late 14c., "wrongful, illegal," from Anglo-French
torcious
(14c.), from stem of
torcion
, literally "a twisting," from Late Latin
tortionem
(see
torsion
, and compare
tort
). Meaning "pertaining to a tort" is from 1540s.
