maleficiary
maleficiary noun: one who suffers harm from something.
Noun
maleficiary (plural maleficiaries)
- One who suffers harm from something.
- To learn whether we as a nation may be either the beneficiary or maleficiary of this princely private interest we must ask what happens as the result of such interest1912, William Harvey Allen, Modern philanthropy; a Study of Efficient Appealing and Giving, Dodd. Mead and Company, page 148
- Literary criticism is not only the beneficiary of this continuity of medium but the maleficiary. For every occasion on which literary criticism is thereby enabled to be more precisely applicable and substantiable than, say, criticism of music (which does not manifest itself for most purposes in the...1996, Christopher B. Ricks, Essays in Appreciation, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 348
- Antonyms:
- beneficiary
Antonyms of maleficiary
Forms of maleficiary
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Questions about maleficiary
- What does maleficiary mean?
- Maleficiary means one who suffers harm from something.
- What part of speech is maleficiary?
- Maleficiary is a noun.
- What is the plural of maleficiary?
- The plural of maleficiary is maleficiaries.
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