A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1587-1650
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Malcontentit, Mal(e)contented, a. [e.m.E. (1584).] = Malcontent,a. and n. a. —1587 Moysie 66.
The King red away … malcontented 1592 Reg. Privy C. IV. 834.
That he wes malcontentit that he culd find na outgait in his mater 1604-9 Grahame Anat. Hum. 3.
The male-contented mutenar c1650 Spalding II. 152.
Thir malcontentit lordis beginis to mvrmvr 1643 Baillie II. 99.
These much malecontented that their generall and they should be misprised
