Both Uses of
malefactor
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- And they shackled him hand and foot and would take of him ne bail ne mainprise but preferred a charge against him for he was a malefactor.†
Chpt 12 *
- Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
someone who does bad things