miscreant
英['m?skr??nt]
美['m?skr??nt]
- adj. 異端的；邪道的；極惡的
- n. 異端；惡棍；罪大惡極之人
詞態變化
復數:?miscreants;
中文詞源
miscreant 惡棍，歹徒，不法之徒
來自古法語mescreant,信仰錯誤的人，不信基督的人，來自mis-,壞的，錯的，-cre,信仰，信任，詞源同credo,heart,credible.引申詞義非基督徒，異教徒，不忠之人，后用于指惡棍，歹徒等。比較 heathen,pagan.
英文詞源
- miscreant
- miscreant: see creed
- miscreant (adj.)
- c. 1300, "non-Christian, pagan, infidel;" early 15c., "heretical, unbelieving," from Old French mescreant "disbelieving" (Modern French mécréant), from mes- "wrongly" (see mis- (2)) + creant, present participle of creire "believe," from Latin credere (see credo). Meaning "villainous" is from 1590s.
- miscreant (n.)
- late 14c., "heathen, Saracen," from miscreant (adj.) or from Old French mescreant, which also had a noun sense of "infidel, pagan, heretic." Sense of "villain" first recorded 1590 in Spenser.
雙語例句
- 1. How easy it has been in this febrile atmosphere to point the finger at miscreant journalists.
- 在目前這股熱潮中,對那些不道德的記者指指戳戳是多么的容易.
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