maleficiary

noun

1. One who suffers harm from something.

   “To learn whether we as a nation may be either the beneficiary or maleficiary of this princely private interest we must ask what happens as the result of such interest”

   “Literary criticism is not only the beneficiary of this continuity of medium but the maleficiary. For every occasion on which literary criticism is thereby enabled to be more precisely applicable and substantiable than, say, criticism of music (which does not manifest itself for most purposes in the medium of music), there will be at least the danger of an occasion on which literary criticism will succumb to the incitements endemic to such continuity.”