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  • noun Plural form of malefactress.

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  • It would be greatly for the public behoof if we women, being of mature age and church-members in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne.

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

  • It would be greatly for the public behoof, if we women, being of mature age and churchmembers in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne.

    II. The Market-Place 1917

  • It would be greatly for the public behoof if we women, being of mature age and church-members in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester

    The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • It would be greatly for the public behoof, if we women, being of mature age and church-members in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne.

    The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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