† faultern.
Obsolete.
One who commits a fault; a culprit, delinquent, offender.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > wrongdoer > [noun]
guilter12..
misdoera1325
trespasser1362
transgressor1377
offendera1450
wrongerc1449
misruler1450
wrongdoerc1450
delinquent1484
committer1509
violater1523
faulter1535
violator?1535
exceeder1625
misfeasor1631
tortfeasor1658
misactor1659
culprit1769
disorderly1852
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > evil-doer > offender or transgressor
guilter12..
trespasser1362
transgressor1377
prevaricatora1425
surfeitera1425
offendera1450
delinquent1484
committer1509
violater1523
faulter1535
violator?1535
offendent1580
peccant1621
exceeder1625
moocher1675
culprit1769
sinner1809
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 544 Of sic faltouris thair haif tha brocht fyve hunder.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxiv. 10 The faughter..To saue his lyfe, apealth to be repride.
1602 Henley in Arden Rolls A Presentment of all the ffaultes and fawters 13 Octr. 1602.
1634 T. Heywood Maidenhead Lost ii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 120 Punish the faulter, and the innocent saue.
1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. ii. ix. 81 To the Lord High Admiral belongs..the goods of Pirates, Felons, or Capital Faulters.
1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 494 Though he be the fautor..Yet here's his health in water.
1839 P. Buchan in Whistle-Binkie 2nd Ser. 41 I'se no be sic a fauter.
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