Word Meanings - DELINQUENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty. (more info) fail, be wanting in one's duty, do wrong; de- + linquere to leave.
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- MALEFACTOR
1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict. - CRIMINALITY
The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt. This is by no means the only criterion of criminality. Blackstone. - CRIMINAL
1. Guilty of crime or sin. The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. Rogers. 2. Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. Foppish and fantastic - DELINQUENT
Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty. (more info) fail, be wanting in one's duty, do wrong; de- + linquere to leave. - OFFENDER
One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer. I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. 1 Kings i. 21. - DELINQUENTLY
So as to fail in duty. - CRIMINALNESS
Criminality. - CULPRIT
Latin culpatus the accused, p. p. of L. culpare to blame. See 1. One accused of, or ar An author is in the condition of a culprit; the public are his judges. Prior. 2. One quilty of a fault; a criminal. - CRIMINALLY
In violation of law; wickedly. - CRIMINALIST
One versed in criminal law. - DISCRIMINAL
In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.