单词 | wrongdoer |
释义 | wrongdoern. One who does wrong. 1. One who commits wrongful, unjust, or blameworthy acts; one who transgresses or offends against the moral law. ΘΠ 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 scatheOE misdoera1325 malfeasorc1380 evil-doer1398 forfeiter1413 wrongerc1449 malefactor?c1450 wicked-doerc1450 wrongdoerc1450 felonian1594 hellcat1603 commissioner1651 misactor1659 malfeasant1867 c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. li. 123 I knowe hov all þinge is doon, I knowe þe wronge doer & suffrer. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) iv. 116 That he defende his peple ayenst wronge doers inwarde bi justice. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) iv. 116 All the wronge doers of þe reaume. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. viii Wyllyam, which was..a defendor of ye pore people agayn extorcioners & wronge doers was by them put wrongfully to deth. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxlviiiv Suche maner badnesse, whiche is vsed to purifye wronge doers is somwhat. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxii. sig. Cc8 She resolued to spende all her yeares..in..praying for the wrong-dooer. 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. O.T. iv. 302 Who is so ready to except and exclaime as the wrong-doer? 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 183 in Justice Vindicated [That] the King..may both govern and rule..the Holy Church, and that he defend the same from wrong-doers. 1703 N. Rowe Ulysses iii. i Vindictive Jove prepares his Thunder. Let the Wrong-doer and the Tyrant tremble. 1795–6 W. Wordsworth Borderers v. 2071 He forgave The wrong and the wrong-doer. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 646 They were..men of blame~less life, and..were regarded..not as wrongdoers, but as martyrs. 1880 W. H. D. Adams Wrecked Lives 1st Ser. p. iv The unerring Nemesis of Failure dogs the footsteps of the wrongdoers. 2. Law. One who is guilty of a wrong, tort, or trespass; a trespasser, tort-feasor; a law-breaker. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker waryOE wandelard1338 breakerc1384 malefactora1438 law-breakerc1440 misgovernora1449 malfetoura1450 wrongdoer1501 contravener1567 criminal1610 contravenary1614 mug1865 crook1879 outlaw1880 punter1891 kink1914 heavy man1926 crim1927 antisocial1945 villain1960 banduluc1977 1501 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 306 The seid Mayrez and brethern..shall..punysshe the wrongdoers therin in such maner as they may lawfully do. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 181 For that [action] maketh him a wrong doer. a1634 E. Coke 2nd Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1642) 168 If the goods or merchandises..be.. taken away by certaine wrong doers not knowne. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 171 If any Seat..be taken away by a Stranger, the Church-warden..may have their Action against the Wrong-doer. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 182 A writ of entry in the post..only alleges the injury of the wrong~doer. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 142 For the same acts that are good, when done by the person who has right, are not sufficient in the case of a wrong-doer. 1856 N. Brit. Rev. 26 271 Shall the master..be answerable pecuniarily to the dead man's widow, or shall it be the wrong-doer? 1911 Times 17 May 3/4 He..denied that the mere fact..relieved a wrongdoer from paying damages. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1450 |
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