felon

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  1. noun Law One who has committed a felony.
  2. noun Archaic An evil person.
  3. adjective Archaic Evil; cruel.
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  • When the lieutenant handed me an order from the governor of Sierra Leone and its dependencies, authorizing him to burn or destroy the property of Joseph, as well as to arrest that personage himself, I regretted that I was unable to facilitate his patriotic projects, inasmuch as the felon was afloat on salt water, while all his property had long before been conveyed to me by a regular bill of sale. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver, by Brantz Mayer and Theodore Canot.
  • Alaska senator Ted Stevens is now a convicted felon, another "public servant" who served himself instead of the public. —  Cafferty File
  • Dhami is described as a felon on probation who at one time was a friend of the victim, —  Top World News
  • "I've always been told, I'm just an ex-felon, an ex-con, a jailbird, a bad father," he said. —  News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
  • If DNA can prove whether or not a convicted felon was actually guilty, then the evidence needs to be presented. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
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malefactor ·  murderer ·  offender ·  traitor ·  drunkard ·  culprit ·  robber ·  desperado ·  outlaw ·  impostor ·  convict ·  debtor

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felon:   felons
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English feloun, from Old French felon, wicked, a wicked person, from Medieval Latin fellō, fellōn-, possibly of Germanic origin.
  2. Middle English feloun, probably from Latin fel, gall, bile; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also fellon; from Middle English felon, feloun, n., a wicked person (applied to Satan, Herod, a heathen giant, etc.), a traitor; adjective feloun, wicked, malignant; from Old French felon, felun, fellon, a wicked person, a traitor, rebel, adjective traitorous, treacherous, wicked, malignant, French felon, n. and adjective, = Provencal felon, fellon = Old Spanish fellon = Italian fellone, adjective, wicked, cruel, inhuman, Middle Latin fello, felo(n-), adjective traitorous, treacherous, n. a traitor, rebel (in English law any malefactor punishable with death: see felo); properly a noun, from Old French fel = Provencal fel, wicked, malignant, treacherous, fell, = Italian fello, wicked, cruel, perfidious, bad. The word thus appears to be connected with English fell (in Anglo-Saxon only in comp. -fel, -felo, -fæle), both, it seems, ult. of Celtic origin: cf. Gaelic feallan, a felon, traitor, Breton falloni, treachery; Gaelic Breton fall = Irish feal, evil; W. and Corn, ffel, wily (cf. English fell in sense of ‘wily, shrewd’); the ult. verb being Gaelic and Irish feallaim, I betray, deceive, fail, cf. Breton fallaat, impair, render base; orig. *sfall- = Latin fallere, deceive (later English fail), = Greek σφάλλειν, cause to fall, etc.: see fell, fail.
  2. Formerly also fellon; English dial. fellon, fellom; from Middle English feloun, felon, felun, felone, glossed by L. carbunculus, antrax (for anthrax), apparently a ‘malignant’ sore, from feloun, malignant, wicked: see felon. Cf. Middle English gloss. “hec antrax, a felun bleyn,” where felun, printed without a comma, may be an adjective (Wright's A. S. and O. English Vocab., ed. Wülcker, p. 791, col. 12).
 

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