manqueller
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A mankiller; a manslayer; an executioner.
Examples
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So it happened that they found this holy man, and they bound him as though he had been a thief or a manqueller, and brought him before the judge, and with a fell and spiteful mood the judge said to him: Thou rude and unbelieving man, wherefore cost thou with thy devilish works convert all the people from their belief to thy belief, and to thy God?
Note
The word 'manqueller' comes from an Old English word meaning 'executioner, manslayer'.
