In flagrante delicto In flagrante delicto In flagrante delicto (Latin: "in blazing offence"), or simply in flagrante, a legal term, indicates that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence (compare ). The colloquial "caught " or "caught rapid" are English equivalents. The phrase combines the present active participle "flagrāns" (flaming or blazing) with the noun "dēlictum" (offence, misdeed, or crime). In this term the Latin preposition "in", not indicating motion, takes the ablative. The closest literal translation would be "in blazing offence", where "blazing" is a metaphor for vigorous, highly visible action. In Japan, the phrase's translation, "Genkōhan"
The Blazing World among others…” Oddvar Holmesland of University of Edinburgh agrees that "The Blazing World" is creative in its genres, writing that "the term 'hybridization' aptly captures Cavendish's method of blending established genres and categories into a new order, and of presenting her fantasy empire as versimilar." University of Georgia professor Sujata Iyengar points out the importance of the fact that "The Blazing World" is clearly fictional, a stark contrast to the scientific nature of the work it is attached to. Iyengar notes that writing a work of fiction allowed Cavendish to create a new world in which she could conceive of