misliver

English

Etymology

From Middle English myslyver, equivalent to mislive +‎ -er.

Noun

misliver (plural mislivers)

  1. (archaic) One who leads an evil or sinful life.
    • 2006, original 1528, William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man:
      And as the husband is head over his wife: even so hath he commandment to rule her appetites and is damned if he suffer her to be an whore and a misliver, or submit himself to her and make her his head.
    • 2017, Martin Ingram, Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470–1600, page 275:
      Yet the bishops who responded to the Commons' Supplication, while acutely sensitive in general to any assault on 'the laws of the church for repression of sin and reformation of 'mislivers', hardly seem to have appreciated the potential effects of this particular line of attack, blandly observing that 'a better provision cannot be devised than is already devised by the clergy, in our opinion.
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