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malefactee

malefactee noun: synonym of maleficiary.

Noun

malefactee (plural malefactees)

  1. Synonym of maleficiary.
    • To my knowledge, Gil (1982) was the first scholar to refer to the indirect object of verbs like belong, happen, matter, occur, etc., as the benefactee or malefactee.2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021
    Synonyms:
    maleficiary

Synonyms of malefactee

Forms of malefactee

pluralmalefactees

Origin of malefactee

From malefact(or) + -ee.

Questions about malefactee

What does malefactee mean?
Malefactee means synonym of maleficiary.
What part of speech is malefactee?
Malefactee is a noun.
What is the plural of malefactee?
The plural of malefactee is malefactees.

Words near malefactee in the dictionary

  1. maledom
  2. maledoms
  3. maleducation
  4. maleducative
  5. maleevite
  6. malefactee
  7. malefactees
  8. malefaction
  9. malefactions
  10. malefactive
  11. malefactives

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