つみ
crime, sin
The net comes down on somebody who went against it, and what he did was not a small thing. Sue me つみ, he said, and they did a great deal more than that: つみ.
犯人 はんにん is the person who did it. 罪 is the deed, and it stretches to sin as well as crime.
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