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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

malefactee en · NOUN

Etymology

From malefact(or) + -ee.

Meanings

  1. Synonym of maleficiary.
    • 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

Forms

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Synonyms

maleficiary