miscreant
English
Alternative forms
- miscreaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French mescreant (1080) "mis-believer", present participle of mescreire "to misbelieve" (modern mécroire).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
miscreant (comparative more miscreant, superlative most miscreant)
- Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
- (theology) Holding an incorrect religious belief.
Translations
lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous
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holding an incorrect religious belief
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Noun
miscreant (plural miscreants)
- One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, columns 1–2:
- Thou art a Traitor, and a Miſcreant;
Too good to be ſo, and too bad to liue,
Since the more faire and chriſtall is the skie,
The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye:
- The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.
- One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.
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- (theology) One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.
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- Arise thou cursed Miscreaunt,
- That hast with knightlesse guile and trecherous train
- Faire knighthood fowly shamed
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- Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God.
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Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:miscreant.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:troublemaker
- See also Thesaurus:villain
Translations
one who has behaved badly or illegally
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one not restrained by moral principles
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one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever
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