misdoer

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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

Would that every misdoer among the provincial governors had thus been followed up by the law!

From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Gilman, Arthur

You have seen how they treat a misdoer there in the jail; now you see how they treat the innocent and the worthy.

From The Mysterious Stranger by Twain, Mark

In the case of demerit there is a direct antipathy to the feelings of the misdoer, but the chief sentiment excited is sympathy with those injured by the misdeed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

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

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness