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malefactee
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English
Etymology
From malefact(or) + -ee.
Noun
malefactee (plural malefactees)
- 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.
- 2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021
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