malefaction

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He rightly said it would be better not to have a country than to see this malefaction persist.

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  1. Heinous wrong-doing; a criminal deed; a crime; a wrong; a bane or curse. They have proclaim'd their malefactions. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2.621. Such disregard of self as brings on suffering … is a malefaction to others. H. Spencer, Data of Ethics, § 72.

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  1. from Late Latin malefactio(n-), injury (used only in derived sense of fainting, syncope), from malefacere, do evil, harm, from male, evil, + facere, do: see fact. Cf. benefaction.
 

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