miscreant
英 ['mɪskrɪənt]
美 ['mɪskrɪənt]
- adj.异端的;邪道的;极恶的
- n.异端;恶棍;罪大恶极之人
中文词源
miscreant 恶棍,歹徒,不法之徒
来自古法语mescreant,信仰错误的人,不信基督的人,来自mis-,坏的,错的,-cre,信仰,信任,词源同credo,heart,credible.引申词义非基督徒,异教徒,不忠之人,后用于指恶棍,歹徒等。比较 heathen,pagan.
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. How easy it has been in this febrile atmosphere to point the finger at miscreant journalists.
- 在目前这股热潮中,对那些不道德的记者指指戳戳是多么的容易.
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