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Murderer

//ˈmɜːdəɹə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who commits murder.

    "Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers."

  2. 2
    a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English murderere; equivalent to murder + -er.

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