All 3 Uses of
perpetrator
in
War and Peace
- But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself!†
Chpt 1 *
- Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burglaries, incendiarisms, and murders as in whole centuries are not recorded in the annals of all the law courts of the world, but which those who committed them did not at the time regard as being crimes.†
Chpt 9
- That night the doors were again broken open, the padlocks smashed, the books mutilated, and other disorders perpetrated.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(perpetrator) someone who has does something wrong -- usually something illegal