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malefaction

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mal⋅e⋅fac⋅tion

  [mal-uh-fak-shuhn]
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–noun
an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
Origin:
1375–1425 for an earlier sense; 1595–1605 for current sense; ME malefaccioun impotence; see malefact(or), -ion
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mal·e·fac·tor   (māl'ə-fāk'tər)   
n.  

  1. One that has committed a crime; a criminal.

  2. An evildoer.


[Middle English malefactour, from Latin malefactor, from malefacere, to do wrong : male, ill; see mel-3 in Indo-European roots + facere, to do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
mal'e·fac'tion (-fāk'shən) n.
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