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malefactees

malefactees is the plural of malefactee.

Meaning of malefactee

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

Questions about malefactees

What is malefactees the plural of?
Malefactees is the plural of malefactee.

Words near malefactees in the dictionary

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

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