"misdemeanist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1895, Charles Lever, The Novels of Charles Lever, page 193:",
          "text": "Never did a misdemeanist take his “six weeks” with a more complete consciousness of penalty than did Polly sit down to that piano. She well understood it as a sentence, and, let me own, submitted well and gracefully to her fate.",
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          "text": "Courts have held in many instances that it is better to allow a misdemeanist to escape rather than take his life.",
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        "One who commits a misdemeanor."
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