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Definition of Misdoer
1. n. A wrongdoer.
Definition of Misdoer
1. Noun. person who commits a misdeed, offender ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misdoer
1. one that misdoes [n -S] - See also: misdoes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdoer
Literary usage of Misdoer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insurance Cyclopáedia: Being a Dictionary of the Definition of Terms by Cornelius Walford (1876)
"... immediate recourse may still be had without delay to a Justice, but the misdoer
might escape before the Judge of the County Court should hold his ..."
2. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1821)
"An assault in, apprehending a misdoer by, a private individual, ... subdue, or
secure the misdoer. rally, an assaults justifiable in stopping any. one in an ..."
3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"To the monarch were he so disposed, and determined to exercise it, the power of
saving the misdoer from all punishment, and from all prosecution, ..."
4. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"That she be married to the misdoer, or to some other by his consent; ... For if
these concur net, and be so laid in the indictment, the misdoer is not a ..."
5. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1824)
"That she be married to the misdoer, or to some other by his consent, or be defiled
... For if these concur not, the misdoer is no felon within this statute, ..."
6. Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London by Corporation of London, Corporation of London (England), John Carpenter, Henry Thomas Riley (1861)
"... for that when the body of a misdoer has abjured the King's territory, and this
by sanction of the King, in such case the King's justice is saved and the ..."
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