† misdemeanistn.
Obsolete. rare.
A misdemeanant.
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1862 C. J. Lever Barrington xviii Never did a misdemeanist take his ‘six weeks’ with a more complete consciousness of penalty than did Polly sit down to that piano.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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