malcontentn.¹adj.

Brit.

/ˈmalkəntɛnt/, U.S.

/ˈˌmælkənˈˌtɛnt/

Forms: see mal- prefix and content adj.¹; also Scottish pre-1700 mailacontent, pre-1700 malacontent, pre-1700 male-contens (plural), pre-1700 mallcontent.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French malcontent.

Etymology: < Middle French malcontent (15th cent. as adjective, a1465 as noun) < mal- mal- prefix + content content adj.¹ Compare post-classical Latin malecontentus, noun (1587 in a British source).

A. n.¹

A discontented person; (now) esp. one who is disaffected or actively discontented, or inclined to resistance or rebellion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [noun] > discontented person

malcontent1575

discontent1598

discontenteea1734

non-con1790

non-content1830

Frondeur1847

sore-head1848

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > political disaffection > [noun] > politically disaffected person

malcontent1575

malignant1597

Frondeur1847

freedom fighter1910

dissident1940

1574 V. Dale Let. in State Papers Foreign Elizabeth I 8 Mar. (P.R.O.: SP 70/130) f. 106 They call them selues Les malcontents, the pretence of their assembly..[is] not onely for exercise of religion but also for that they feared to be surprised and slaine.]

1575 R. Stafford Let. 29 Mar. in State Papers Foreign Elizabeth I (P.R.O.: SP 70/133) f. 202 Theyr are heere a nomber of theise polytyke papists... Theyr are other thatt be malcontents and moste of all theyse haue no religion.

1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. D.4^v More faythfull ayders..then euer Monsieur could bring into the field when he ioyned hymselfe with the Malcontents eyther in Fraunce or the lowe conntryes.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 152 I thinke they haue iust cause to be mal contents, who knowing themselues to be sufficient men..are..used by their father like children.

a1587 L. Aldersey in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 177 Besides the perill of the Malecontents, who were vpon both sides of the riuer [Rhine].

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 10/2 The onelie place wherein all the mal-contents [1577 Rebels] of his realme had their refuge.

1608 Newes from Lough-foyle sig. A3 Male-contents and Maligners of the State.

1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling (1672) v. 67 No, sayes the male-content, if things had sorted to my mind, it had been far better than it is.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 110 Your sons are male-contents, but yet are true, As far as non-resistance makes 'em so.

1719 Boston News-let. 19 Jan. 1/1 Is it not unaccountable that a Cataline Crew of Male contents should engage to a few unwary Men to join in their conspiracy.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. iii, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 258 The malecontents had not yet openly taken up arms.

1812 T. Jefferson Let. 30 May in Writings (1904) XIII. 153 The triangular war must be the idea of the Anglomen and malcontents.

1841 R. C. Trench Parables (1860) 416 He expostulates with the malcontent.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §7. 662 The leading malcontents..were already calling on him to interfere in arms.

1900 Speaker 17 Mar. 644/1 A few malcontents and mossbacked mugwumps.

1942 Times Rev. Year 1941 3 Jan. p. i/2 Iraq, where..Raschid Ali and a group of military malcontents expelled the Regent and set up a pro-Axis government.

1957 V. Packard Hidden Persuaders (1962) xviii. 171 They found that some of the malcontents were women who worked in a dark, isolated area and felt neglected.

1989 New Yorker 22 May 73/2 Mozambique's unique misfortune has been to live next door to a regime ready..to organize its malcontents.

B. adj.

Chiefly of a person: discontented, dissatisfied; (now) esp. actively discontented; unwilling to acquiesce in the established ideas or practices of an institution, society, etc.; inclined to resistance or rebellion; restless and disaffected. Also (occasionally) with with.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [adjective]

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sore-head1862

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dischuffed1975

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > political disaffection > [adjective]

malcontent1578

malcontented1582

disaffected1602

antisocial1802

dissident1955

1578 W. Davison Let. in State Papers Foreign Elizabeth I 29 Mar. (P.R.O.: SP 83/5) f. 111 The Frenche..are affirmed constantly to be retyred malcontent.

1581 T. Newton tr. Seneca Thebais iii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 50 She Motherlike seekes how to linke their hartes in one assent, With brynish teares she wettes the cheekes of him thats malcontent.

1583–4 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1913) VII. 42 The hoill cuntre is mervelus malcontent.

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 201^v If the Ape is malecontent for want of a taile.

1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 116 He quickly began to grow malcontent, and..entred at last into a conspiracie.

?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome Pref. sig. a2 ^v He that carrieth himselfe troubledly, disquietly, malcontent, fearing death, is not wise.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. i. 10 How like you our Choyce, That you stand pensiue, as halfe malecontent ?

1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces i. 49 At this time began to be form'd the Malecontent-party in the Low-Countreys.

1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) i. iv. 86 He presently grows male-content with his condition.

1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 4/2 This malcontent temper of the Grecian Christians.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 141 Lady Margaret Bellenden had returned, in romantic phrase, malcontent and full of heaviness.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 495 The malecontent whigs were now [sc. 1701] so consolidated with the tories, as in general to bear their name.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. xii. 266 Stories about malcontent country gentlemen.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains viii. 234 He has ever since been malcontent with literature.

1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Nov. a13/6 Characters..include..Martin.., a malcontent hanger-on at Kate's café.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† malcontentn.²

Forms: see mal- prefix and content n.²; also Scottish pre-1700 mall content.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mal- prefix, content n.²

Etymology: < mal- prefix + content n.², probably after malcontent n.¹, malcontent adj.

Obsolete.

A state of discontentment; a cause of discontent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [noun]

unlikinga1398

aggrudging1440

grudge1477

miscontenting1495

murmurheada1500

discontentation?1510

discontentinga1513

miscontentationa1530

miscontentment1535

insatisfaction1568

discontentment1572

discontent1581

malcontentment1587

miscontent1588

discontentedness1589

malcontent1591

malcontentedness1592

repine1593

bad satisfaction1607

dissatisfaction1640

unsatisfactoriness1643

unsatisfiedness1646

uncontentedness1654

disaffection1697

dissatisfiedness1710

chagrin1717

repinement1743

malcontentism1813

soreheadedness1860

uncontent1873

1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. D4 We must obscure this mone with melodie, Least worser wrack ensue our male~content.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 6 Let me enter into consideration of the intractable passage of my malecontents past.

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 44 A necessity of sadnes and malecontent.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall v. 71 Content to be nothing, or never to have been, which was beyond the male-content of Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his Nativity.

1672 Heath's Flagellum (new ed.) 29 Rash and blind Furies, that made way to the unobserved advancement of this private Male-content.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	malcontent
释义	malcontentn.¹adj. Brit. /ˈmalkəntɛnt/, U.S. /ˈˌmælkənˈˌtɛnt/ Forms: see mal- prefix and content adj.¹; also Scottish pre-1700 mailacontent, pre-1700 malacontent, pre-1700 male-contens (plural), pre-1700 mallcontent. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French malcontent. Etymology: < Middle French malcontent (15th cent. as adjective, a1465 as noun) < mal- mal- prefix + content content adj.¹ Compare post-classical Latin malecontentus, noun (1587 in a British source). A. n.¹ A discontented person; (now) esp. one who is disaffected or actively discontented, or inclined to resistance or rebellion. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [noun] > discontented person malcontent1575 discontent1598 discontenteea1734 non-con1790 non-content1830 Frondeur1847 sore-head1848 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > political disaffection > [noun] > politically disaffected person malcontent1575 malignant1597 Frondeur1847 freedom fighter1910 dissident1940 1574 V. Dale Let. in State Papers Foreign Elizabeth I 8 Mar. (P.R.O.: SP 70/130) f. 106 They call them selues Les malcontents, the pretence of their assembly..[is] not onely for exercise of religion but also for that they feared to be surprised and slaine.] 1575 R. Stafford Let. 29 Mar. in State Papers Foreign Elizabeth I (P.R.O.: SP 70/133) f. 202 Theyr are heere a nomber of theise polytyke papists... Theyr are other thatt be malcontents and moste of all theyse haue no religion. 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. D.4^v More faythfull ayders..then euer Monsieur could bring into the field when he ioyned hymselfe with the Malcontents eyther in Fraunce or the lowe conntryes. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 152 I thinke they haue iust cause to be mal contents, who knowing themselues to be sufficient men..are..used by their father like children. a1587 L. Aldersey in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 177 Besides the perill of the Malecontents, who were vpon both sides of the riuer [Rhine]. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 10/2 The onelie place wherein all the mal-contents [1577 Rebels] of his realme had their refuge. 1608 Newes from Lough-foyle sig. A3 Male-contents and Maligners of the State. 1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling (1672) v. 67 No, sayes the male-content, if things had sorted to my mind, it had been far better than it is. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 110 Your sons are male-contents, but yet are true, As far as non-resistance makes 'em so. 1719 Boston News-let. 19 Jan. 1/1 Is it not unaccountable that a Cataline Crew of Male contents should engage to a few unwary Men to join in their conspiracy. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. iii, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 258 The malecontents had not yet openly taken up arms. 1812 T. Jefferson Let. 30 May in Writings (1904) XIII. 153 The triangular war must be the idea of the Anglomen and malcontents. 1841 R. C. Trench Parables (1860) 416 He expostulates with the malcontent. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §7. 662 The leading malcontents..were already calling on him to interfere in arms. 1900 Speaker 17 Mar. 644/1 A few malcontents and mossbacked mugwumps. 1942 Times Rev. Year 1941 3 Jan. p. i/2 Iraq, where..Raschid Ali and a group of military malcontents expelled the Regent and set up a pro-Axis government. 1957 V. Packard Hidden Persuaders (1962) xviii. 171 They found that some of the malcontents were women who worked in a dark, isolated area and felt neglected. 1989 New Yorker 22 May 73/2 Mozambique's unique misfortune has been to live next door to a regime ready..to organize its malcontents. B. adj. Chiefly of a person: discontented, dissatisfied; (now) esp. actively discontented; unwilling to acquiesce in the established ideas or practices of an institution, society, etc.; inclined to resistance or rebellion; restless and disaffected. Also (occasionally) with with. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [adjective] unsaught?a1300 unsetea1350 unrestfulc1384 unsatisfiedc1430 discontentc1475 ill content1477 miscontent?1499 uncontentc1503 orpita1525 discontented1531 miscontenteda1533 evil contented1548 repining1565 uncontented1568 unpacified1570 discontentive1578 malcontent1578 ill-contented1582 malcontented1582 unmollified1587 unappeased1594 discontentful1604 discontenting1605 contentlessa1616 ungratifieda1625 insatisfied1643 unsatisfieda1648 unsoothed1648 repineful1655 dissatisfied1675 satisfactionless1841 sore-headed1844 disgruntled1847 sore-head1862 choked1950 dischuffed1975 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > political disaffection > [adjective] malcontent1578 malcontented1582 disaffected1602 antisocial1802 dissident1955 1578 W. Davison Let. in State Papers Foreign Elizabeth I 29 Mar. (P.R.O.: SP 83/5) f. 111 The Frenche..are affirmed constantly to be retyred malcontent. 1581 T. Newton tr. Seneca Thebais iii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 50 She Motherlike seekes how to linke their hartes in one assent, With brynish teares she wettes the cheekes of him thats malcontent. 1583–4 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1913) VII. 42 The hoill cuntre is mervelus malcontent. 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 201^v If the Ape is malecontent for want of a taile. 1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 116 He quickly began to grow malcontent, and..entred at last into a conspiracie. ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome Pref. sig. a2 ^v He that carrieth himselfe troubledly, disquietly, malcontent, fearing death, is not wise. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. i. 10 How like you our Choyce, That you stand pensiue, as halfe malecontent ? View more context for this quotation 1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces i. 49 At this time began to be form'd the Malecontent-party in the Low-Countreys. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) i. iv. 86 He presently grows male-content with his condition. 1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 4/2 This malcontent temper of the Grecian Christians. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 141 Lady Margaret Bellenden had returned, in romantic phrase, malcontent and full of heaviness. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 495 The malecontent whigs were now [sc. 1701] so consolidated with the tories, as in general to bear their name. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. xii. 266 Stories about malcontent country gentlemen. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains viii. 234 He has ever since been malcontent with literature. 1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Nov. a13/6 Characters..include..Martin.., a malcontent hanger-on at Kate's café. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † malcontentn.² Forms: see mal- prefix and content n.²; also Scottish pre-1700 mall content. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mal- prefix, content n.² Etymology: < mal- prefix + content n.², probably after malcontent n.¹, malcontent adj. Obsolete. A state of discontentment; a cause of discontent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [noun] unlikinga1398 aggrudging1440 grudge1477 miscontenting1495 murmurheada1500 discontentation?1510 discontentinga1513 miscontentationa1530 miscontentment1535 insatisfaction1568 discontentment1572 discontent1581 malcontentment1587 miscontent1588 discontentedness1589 malcontent1591 malcontentedness1592 repine1593 bad satisfaction1607 dissatisfaction1640 unsatisfactoriness1643 unsatisfiedness1646 uncontentedness1654 disaffection1697 dissatisfiedness1710 chagrin1717 repinement1743 malcontentism1813 soreheadedness1860 uncontent1873 1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. D4 We must obscure this mone with melodie, Least worser wrack ensue our male~content. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 6 Let me enter into consideration of the intractable passage of my malecontents past. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 44 A necessity of sadnes and malecontent. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall v. 71 Content to be nothing, or never to have been, which was beyond the male-content of Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his Nativity. 1672 Heath's Flagellum (new ed.) 29 Rash and blind Furies, that made way to the unobserved advancement of this private Male-content. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † malcontentv. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mal- prefix, content v. Etymology: < mal- prefix + content v., after malcontent adj. Obsolete. transitive. To render discontented or dissatisfied. ΚΠ 1584 Copie of Let. conc. Erle of Leycester 166 Noble men of the Realm, who liue abrode..much iniuried & malcontented by his insolencie. c1597 R. Naunton Let. 16 Dec. in G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. (1976) II. 152 This refusall of the Marshalls malcontenteth the King no lesse then the King refusalls of the other competito^r doth d'Espernon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.¹adj.1575n.²1591v.1584
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malcontentn.1adj.

† malcontentn.2

† malcontentv.

malcontentn.¹adj.

† malcontentn.²