miscreant

• adj.異端; 邪悪な; 極度に邪悪な
• n.異端; 悪人; 罪人の中で最も邪悪な者

古フランス語のmescreantから、間違って信じる者、キリストを信じない者、mis-, 悪い、間違った、-cre, faith, trustから、語源的にはcredo, heart, credibleと同じ。異教徒、異教徒と比較する。

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.

1. How easy it has been in this febrile atmosphere to point the finger at miscreant journalists.

このブームの中で、不道徳な記者たちにスタンプを指摘するのはどんなに容易なことか。