manslayer

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

From Middle English mansleere, man-slere, manslaer, from Old English mannslaga, equivalent to man + slayer.

Man is a manslayer by instinct and by will. — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan
Meidanov set to reading us his “Manslayer,” which had just appeared in print, but I did not hear him. — The Torrents of Spring, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
In short, scarce was any ware of him when from a thief, a pimp, a forger, a manslayer, he suddenly became a great preacher, without having for all that forsworn the vices aforesaid, whenas he might secretly put them in practice. — The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio

murderer, liquidator

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