scelerat

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/ˈsɛləɹət//ˈsɛləɹæt/

noun

A criminal, a villain.

OriginFrench scélérat ← Latin scelerātus →
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Meanings

nounscelerat (plural scelerats)

plural scelerats

  1. obsoleteA criminal, a villain.

    Hence it is, that Scelerats, can by no Arts, nor any Amuſements hovv violent ſoever, ſtifle the Cries of a vvounded Conſcience; […]

    1715, George Cheyne, “Of the Philosophical Principles of Reveal’d Religion. Corollary I.”, in Philosophical Principles of Religion: Natural and Revealed: […] Philosophical Principles of Religion. Part II. […], London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, page 88

Origin

  1. Latinscelerātus
  2. Frenchscélérat
  3. Englishscelerat

Borrowed from French scélérat, from Latin scelerātus, past participle of scelerāre (“to pollute, defile”), from scelus (“crime”).

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