LekhoriLekhoriA vile, wicked person.
Oh moſt pernicious woman! / Oh Villaine, Villaine, ſmiling damned Villaine!
A low-born, abject person.
Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue: I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe Haue to their names tytles of dignitie, And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?
A character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.
Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
To debase; to degrade .
Probably from Middle English vilein, from Old French vilein (modern French vilain), in turn from Late Latin vīllānus, meaning serf or peasant, someone who is bound to the soil of a Latin vīlla, which ...
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