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Murderer vs Manqueller - What's the difference?

murderer | manqueller |

As nouns the difference between murderer and manqueller

is that murderer is a person who commits murder while manqueller is (obsolete) a killer of men; a manslayer; executioner.

murderer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who commits murder.
  • *1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
  • *:It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty
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  • *:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer .
  • Synonyms

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    Coordinate terms

    * murderess

    manqueller

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A killer of men; a manslayer; executioner.
  • (obsolete) A murderer.
  • Wilt thou kill God's officers and the king's? Ah, thou honey-seed rogue! Thou art a honey-seed, a man-queller , and a woman-queller. — Shakespeare.
    (Carew)