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Fri 21 Apr, 2006 03:04 pm
What's the exact word opposite of benefactor (if there is one)?
Taxman, methinks.
(Beneficiary, actually)
If you take the latin origin, it should be malefactor:
Malefactor
Depending on how benefactor is being used in a senetence it could be recipient, opponent or antagonist (according to my handy-dandy thesaurus!).
But malefactor really isn't the opposite of benefactor. A benefactor does good TO someone; a malefactor simply does something bad.
Many people are just benefactors to humanity...
And good is the opposite of evil (Latin root).
"Beyond good and evil"
"Midnight in the garden of good and evil"
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