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Definition of Malcontents

Malcontent
Malcontent 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.
Malcontent
Malcontent Mal"con*tent`, n. [F. malcontent.] One who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts. --Spenser. Berkeley.

Meaning of Malcontents from wikipedia

- Jaques in As You Like It are typical malcontents. The role is usually both political and dramatic, with the malcontent voicing dissatisfaction with the usually...
- main goal of the Malcontents was to oppose the absolutist ambitions of the King. Established in 1574, they were unhappy (malcontent) with the way the...
- The Malcontent is an early Jacobean stage play written by the dramatist and satirist John Marston ca. 1603. The play was one of Marston's most successful...
- character type. Malcontent(s) may also refer to: The Malcontent, a stage play by John Marston c.1603 Malcontents (France), a political faction active between...
- The Malcontents in the context of the Eighty Years' War or the Dutch Revolt were a faction of Catholic nobles in Hainaut and Artois who openly opposed...
- amb****ador to England, "threatened war and began immediate intrigues with any malcontents he could find". Before Christmas in 1553, anti-Spanish ballads and broadsheets...
- role-playing game created by Denis Gerfaud and re-published in English by Malcontent Games. It is the translation of RĂªve de Dragon (English: "Dragon Dream")...
- between love and exasperation; it cannot be easy to live with this sullen malcontent, whose face lights up only when he sees his baby sister". 8 Mile was a...
- It was, in this view, a movement of country parsons and small-town malcontents who were out of step with the dynamism of twentieth-century urban America...
- happened and that he did not have any outside help or ****istance. He was a malcontent who could not get along here or in the Soviet Union." He added, "I have...