misrulern.
/(ˌ)mɪsˈruːlə/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈrulər/ΘΚΠ
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
1450 in C. L. Kingsford Eng. Hist. Lit. 15th Cent. (1913) 367 (MED) I offur..for to..redresse the Said myssrewlers to my myght and power.
1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 416 I shall reproue & chastice the mysrewlers & mysdoers in the forsaid toune.
1516 Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes XXIX. f. 77 Theiffis trespassouris or misreularis of the realme.
2. A bad or incompetent ruler.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > who governs badly
misleadera1393
misgovernor1509
misruler1554
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour 4292 in Wks. (1931) I. 326 Abbottis and priouris, as ȝe ken, Misrewlaris of relegious men.
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 180 Yie..seike..your..sweit native countrey to be redde from the abbusars and misrewlares of the sam.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. xi. 719 Therefore the Castilian and Spaniard take the law in their own hands, or rather make a new one which is antagonistic and corrective of that framed by their misrulers.
1897 Edinb. Rev. July 1 Their tyrants and misrulers.
1967 P. Goodman Hawkweed 18 My contempt for the misrulers of my country is icy and my indignation raucous.
1990 Independent (Nexis) 13 Oct. 14 The suffering he, his wife, and their family had suffered at the hands of Czechoslovakia's now-forgotten misrulers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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