Both Uses of
perpetrator
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- It was his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of will power attacked a man like a disease, developed gradually and reached its highest point just before the perpetration of the crime, continued with equal violence at the moment of the crime and for longer or shorter time after, according to the individual case, and then passed off like any other disease.†
Chpt 1.6perpetration = something done that was wrong or illegal
- Yes, and you maintained that the perpetration of a crime is always accompanied by illness.†
Chpt 3.5 *
Definition:
someone who has does something wrong -- usually something illegal