misdoer

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And though Sister Hawthorn satisfied the Church by “humble acknowledgment of her miscariag,” the bolder misdoer only made matters worse by “a frothy letter,” which left no alternative but a sentence of expulsion. 

From The Life of John Bunyan by Venables, Edmund

Justice in her demanded that every wrong should be righted, every misdoer punished.

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Grimm explains the principle of this test by tracing it to an old heathen superstition that the holy element, the pure stream, would receive no misdoer within it.

From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)

But she spake at last: Meseemeth as if there is a woman in the isle besides you three; some misdoer that I was minded to punish. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William

He led the people to a green; made them form a ring; then stept into the midst of them, set the faithful sieve a-running, and so failed not to discover the misdoer.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas