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malefactures

malefactures is the plural of malefacture.

Meaning of malefacture

Noun

malefacture (countable and uncountable, plural malefactures)

  1. (obsolete) An act of doing evil; a criminal act; malefaction, maleficence.
    • The putred Fountaine, and bitumenous VVell, / From whence all Vice and malefactures ſwell.1635, Tho[mas] Heywood, “The Principats”, in The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells. Their Names, Orders and Offices; The Fall of Lucifer with His Angells, London: […] Adam Islip, page 412
    Antonyms:
    benefacture

Questions about malefactures

What is malefactures the plural of?
Malefactures is the plural of malefacture.

Words near malefactures in the dictionary

  1. malefactour
  2. malefactours
  3. malefactress
  4. malefactresses
  5. malefacture
  6. malefactures
  7. malefail
  8. malefailed
  9. malefailing
  10. malefails
  11. malefeasance

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