All 3 Uses of
perpetrator
in
Jane Eyre
- She was intent on her work, in which her whole thoughts seemed absorbed: on her hard forehead, and in her commonplace features, was nothing either of the paleness or desperation one would have expected to see marking the countenance of a woman who had attempted murder, and whose intended victim had followed her last night to her lair, and (as I believed), charged her with the crime she wished to perpetrate.†
p. 179.2perpetrate = to do something wrong or illegal
- Mind, I don't say a CRIME; I am not speaking of shedding of blood or any other guilty act, which might make the perpetrator amenable to the law: my word is ERROR.†
p. 251.9 *perpetrator = someone who did something wrong or illegal
- On the first of these occasions, she perpetrated the attempt to burn me in my bed; on the second, she paid that ghastly visit to you.†
p. 357.3perpetrated = done (something wrong or illegal)
Definition:
someone who has does something wrong -- usually something illegal