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Definition of Malcontented
1. a. Malcontent.
Definition of Malcontented
1. Adjective. malcontent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Malcontented
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malcontented
Literary usage of Malcontented
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"70. malcontented (mal-kon-ten'ted), a. ... In a malcontented manner; with discontent.
... The state or character of being malcontented. ..."
2. Criminal Trials by David Jardine (1832)
"Camden relates, that he had some time before reported Nevill as a suspected and
malcontented man, and that the Queen did not at first give implicit credit ..."
3. The Lives and Criminal Trials of Celebrated Men by David Jardine (1835)
"Camden relates, that he had some time before reported Nevill as a suspected and
malcontented man. and that the Queen did not at first give implicit credit ..."
4. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1864)
"As these malcontented Indians did not draw their portion, ... and will find a
good1 many followers to his dictates among some malcontented Indians. ..."
5. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"To him the malcontented commons flock From every part of Sussex, Kent, and Essex,
His army waxed twenty thousand strong, And, as it is suppos'd by ..."
6. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1878)
"... the (King might appoint him keepers to look to him in sanctuary.1 The King
also, for the better securing of his estate against mutinous and malcontented ..."
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