Crossword clues for miscreant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miscreant \Mis"cre*ant\, n. [OF. mescreant, F. m['e]cr['e]ant; pref. mes- (L. minus less) + p. pr. fr. L. credere to believe. See Creed.]
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One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. [Obs.]
--Spenser. De Quincey.Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God.
--Rivers. One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a depraved person; a vile wretch.
--Addison.
Miscreant \Mis"cre*ant\, a.
Holding a false religious faith.
Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous; villainous; base; depraved.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "heathen, Saracen," from miscreant (adj.) or from Old French mescreant, which also had a noun sense of "infidel, pagan, heretic." Sense of "villain" first recorded 1590 in Spenser.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous. 2 (context theology English) Holding an incorrect religious belief. alt. 1 Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous. 2 (context theology English) Holding an incorrect religious belief. n. 1 One who has behaved badly, or illegally. 2 One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain. 3 (context theology English) One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.
WordNet
n. a person without moral scruples [syn: reprobate]
Wikipedia
Miscreant is the first EP album from death metal band Skinless.
Usage examples of "miscreant".
Synnovea could imagine what the presence of this miscreant meant and she was absolutely terrified.
But where would you find another Commodus if some lurking miscreant should stab me from behind?
Oswego makes a distant mark, and that miscreant showed little more than his head and shoulders above the bushes, and an onpractysed hand and eye might have failed.
I came suddenly upon a camp of six Mingos asleep in the woods, with their guns and horns piled in away that enabled me to get possession of them without waking a miscreant of them all.
The Angel Jimmy Jesus, you are hereby invested by this Committee with the fullest authorization to deepen and expand your manhunt for the selfsame miscreant and all who might aid or abet him.
If I judge that the miscreant cannot learn better, he will be rendered incapable of repetition.
You see, the actual time when the miscreant must have sneaked into the room had now been narrowed down to about an hour and a half, between the time when Mrs.
Yet there were no marks of injury upon the body, nothing to show how sufficient unconsciousness had been produced in the victim to permit of the miscreant completing his awesome deed.
Laputa was probably of that opinion, but Henriques would recognize me, and I had no wish to have that yellow miscreant investigating my character.
You want me to spend my nights skulking up and down the roadways, probably catching my death of damp, searching out the miscreant who is impersonating our dear Jack, then haul the bastard to justice.
I hold in my hand, signed by yourself, and given to the miscreant in question.
He noted the contradictions in the declarations of Tozer the instant they were made, but gave no evidence of it, his object being to draw out the miscreant, in which purpose he succeeded perfectly.
Jack Dudley would have welcomed a meeting with this miscreant, for he held him in no fear.
It was not improbable that the miscreant, having committed the unspeakable crime, was concealing it from Tozer, his ally in the dreadful business.
To appeal for mercy would delight the miscreant and not aid the prisoner.