Both Uses of
misdemeanor
in
Middlemarch
- "It was certainly a hasty speech, my dear," said Mrs. Garth, with whom speaking evil of dignities was a high misdemeanor.†
Chpt 4 *
- The statement was passed on until it had quite lost the stamp of an inference, and was taken as information coming straight from Garth, so that even a diligent historian might have concluded Caleb to be the chief publisher of Bulstrode's misdemeanors.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
a crime less serious than a felony