Word Meanings - MALEFACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A crime; an offense; an evil deed. Shak.

Related words: (words related to MALEFACTION)

• OFFENSELESS
  Unoffending; inoffensive.
• OFFENSEFUL
  Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
• CRIME
  which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction
• CRIMELESS
  Free from crime; innocent. Shak.
• OFFENSE; OFFENCE
  1. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury. Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification. Rom. iv. 25. I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men,
• CRIMEFUL
  Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury. Shak.
• FALSICRIMEN
  The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though
• SCRIMER
  A fencing master. Shak.