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maledicent
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English
Etymology
From Latin maledicent.
Adjective
maledicent (comparative more maledicent, superlative most maledicent)
- (archaic) Reproachful in speech.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter X, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 277:
- Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; nay actually fire?
- (archaic) Slanderous.
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Latin
Verb
maledīcent
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