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malefactee

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English

Etymology

From malefact(or) + -ee.

Noun

malefactee (plural malefactees)

  1. Synonym of maleficiary.
    • 2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021
      To my knowledge, Gil (1982) was the first scholar to refer to the indirect object of verbs like belong, happen, matter, occur, etc., as the benefactee or malefactee.

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