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单词 malgrace
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malgracen.

Forms: late Middle English male grace, 1500s–1800s malgrace, 1600s malgreace.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French male grace.
Etymology: < Middle French male grace (15th cent.) < male , feminine of mal bad (see mal- prefix) + grace grace n. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (mælgrēi·s) /mælˈɡreɪs/.
Obsolete.
1. Disfavour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [noun]
malgracea1450
disfavoura1533
discountenance1579
misfavoura1660
a1450 Seven Sages (Cambr. Dd.1.17) (1845) 2108 (MED) Maugre have thou and male grace!
1584 in Bannatyne Misc. (1827) I. 119 I was altogether out of credit and was brocht in malgrace of the courteours.
a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) vi. 326 The Rebels or others known to be in his Majesties mal-grace.
1714 J. Fortescue-Aland Note in Fortescue's Governance of Eng. 75 Magre..signifies the same as mal-grace, disfavour, or ill-will.
2. Something unbecoming. pseudo-archaic. rare.
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1882 G. MacDonald Weighed & Wanting I. iv. 57 May these not see in us some malgrace which it needs the gentleness of Christ to get over and forget?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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