What is "malefactions"

Usage examples of "malefactions".

The chances were even that the wily old killer would sell him to the constables the first chance he got if he thought he could somehow avoid being confronted with his own malefactions, but Kaspar had to take risks at this point.

Those agents gave him credence, because they had already learned of a pamphlet in which the Anglican Church had published the malefactions of a Spanish priest—and in Madrid, when the news reached there, they arrested the prelate to whom Ferrante had attrib­uted his treason, and now the man was awaiting death in the dungeons of the Inquisition.

There wasn't anything in any of those hypothetical malefactions that warranted that.