Mal"con*tent` (?), a. [F., fr. mal ill + content. See Malice, Content.]

discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government.

[Written also malecontent.]

The famous malcontent earl of Leicester. Milner.

 

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Mal"con*tent`, n. [F. malcontent.]

One who is discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts.

Spenser. Berkeley.

 

© Webster 1913.

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