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† malcontentment Obs.
Also male-.
[a. OF. malcontentement: cf. mal- and contentment.]
The condition of being malcontent.
1587Holinshed Scot. Chron. 446/2 They had..by vniuersall male-contentment of the people..procured a great distraction of the kings leeges hearts. 1588Kyd Househ. Phil. Wks. (1901) 252 Vppon the malcontentment of the minde followes the..weakenes of the bodie. 1606Bp. W. Barlow Serm. 21 Sept. E, Their ground was Malecontentment,..because they could not be made Bishops. 1637–50in Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 288 So he put in fifty merks with shame and great malcontentment. |