Misdoer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who commits a misdeed; an offender.

    "Saint Edmund from the horizon’s edge, in shining armour, threatening the misdoer in his hour of extreme need: it is beautiful, it is great and true. So old, yet so modern, actual […]"

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"Saint Edmund from the horizon’s edge, in shining armour, threatening the misdoer in his hour of extreme need: it is beautiful, it is great and true. So old, yet so modern, actual […]"

Etymology

From misdo + -er.

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