Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Malefaction"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Malefaction \Mal`e*fac"tion\, n. [See {Malefactor}.]
A crime; an offense; an evil deed. [R.] --Shak.
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