Murderer vs Slain - What's the difference?
murderer | slain |
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 .
(with "the") Those who have been killed.
* 1906 , Mary Elizabeth Lewis, The ethics of Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung , page 41:
As nouns the difference between murderer and slain
is that murderer is a person who commits murder while slain is .As an adjective slain is
.murderer
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* murderessAnagrams
* English agent nounsslain
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(en-plural noun)- While the Valkyries were the choosers of the valorous slain , they were also obedient to the call of any in distress who asked their help.