Meaning of misdemeanist | Babel Free

Definitions

One who commits a misdemeanor.

Examples

“Never did a misdemeanist take his “six weeks” with a more complete consciousness of penalty than did Polly sit down to that piano. She well understood it as a sentence, and, let me own, submitted well and gracefully to her fate.”

“Courts have held in many instances that it is better to allow a misdemeanist to escape rather than take his life.”

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