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- 1. a person who commits a crime or some other wrong. formal
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Definition of malefactor noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
What does the noun malefactor mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun malefactor . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
1400–50; late Middle English malefactour <Latin malefactor, equivalent to malefac (ere) to act wickedly, do an evil deed (see male-, fact) + -tor-tor Other words for malefactor 1
MALEFACTOR meaning: someone who is guilty of a crime or offense a person whose behavior is wrong or evil
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From Proto-Italic *maledfaktōr, related to malefactus (perfect passive participle of malefaciō), corresponding to male (“evilly”) + factus (“made or done”), past participle of facio (“I make or do”). Used in Old Latin by Plautus and then more commonly in Late Latin.
(Classical) IPA(key): /ma.leˈfak.tor/, [mäɫ̪ɛˈfäkt̪ɔr](modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ma.leˈfak.tor/, [mäleˈfäkt̪or]“malefactor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Pressmalefactor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis(augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)May 21, 2024 · A malefactor is someone who has done something bad or illegal. [formal] ...a well-known criminal lawyer who had saved many a malefactor from going to jail. Synonyms: wrongdoer, criminal, convict, offender More Synonyms of malefactor. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
formal us / ˌmæl.əˈfæk.ʃ ə n / uk / ˌmæl.ɪˈfæk.ʃ ə n / Add to word list. behavior or an act that is criminal or bad: He came forward with incriminating information related to their malefactions. My only malefaction was choosing the wrong man to marry. These novelists have created characters who are capable of stylish malefaction. Fewer examples.
