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WRONGDOER |
Offender |
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CRIMINAL |
Offender |
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CULPRIT |
Offender |
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PERPETRATOR |
Offender |
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GUNMAN |
Armed offender |
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ABETTER |
Offender’s assistant |
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PECCANT |
An offender. |
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OFFENDANT |
An offender. |
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CLEMENCY |
Kindness to offender |
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FRIGHTENEDOFF |
Scared away offender. Fight turned nasty |
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TRESPASSER |
A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner. |
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ABETTOR |
One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. |
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RESPITE |
Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital
offender; reprieve. |
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OLD |
Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as,
an old offender; old in vice. |
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LAPSE |
To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or
catch, as an offender. |
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INDICTABLE |
Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to
indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense. |
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EVIDENCE |
To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as,
to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender. |
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PICKET |
A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the
offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. |
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PARDON |
The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or
of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment;
absolution. |
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FEUD |
A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done
or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. |
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DELINQUENT |
One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an
offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a
culprit. |
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MERCY |
Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of
provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate
treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency. |
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RANSOM |
A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the
discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal
punishment. |
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PUNISHMENT |
A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a
convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the
purposes of reformation and prevention. |
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PARDONABLE |
Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of
penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the
offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit. |