committing

It had been a gruesome experience, but it served him right, he thought, for committing the heresy of going to a strange store.

Here is a man who slips into a house with the deliberate intention of committing murder.

“Pardon me, I had no intention of committing an indiscretion.”

But suppose one pass, as is permissible in philology, from the word itself to its softened synonym, then, instead of committing an ignoble assassination you make an ‘elimination;’ you merely and simply remove from your path the individual who is in your way, and that without shock or violence, without the display of the sufferings which, in the case of becoming a punishment, make a martyr of the victim, and a butcher, in every sense of the word, of him who inflicts them.