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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin malefactūrus, future active participle of malefaciō (“to do evil or harm, to injure”) + -ure (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
malefacture (countable and uncountable, plural malefactures)
- (obsolete) An act of doing evil; a criminal act; malefaction, maleficence.
- Antonym: benefacture
1635, Tho[mas] Heywood, “The Principats”, in The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells. Their Names, Orders and Offices; The Fall of Lucifer with His Angells, London: Adam Islip, page 412:The putred Fountaine, and bitumenous VVell, / From whence all Vice and malefactures ſwell.
Further reading
Latin
Participle
malefactūre
- vocative masculine singular of malefactūrus