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maledicent

maledicent adjective: reproachful in speech.

Adjective

maledicent (comparative more maledicent, superlative most maledicent)

  1. (archaic) Reproachful in speech.
    • Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; nay actually fire?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
  2. (archaic) Slanderous.

Forms of maledicent

comparativemore maledicent
superlativemost maledicent

Origin of maledicent

From Latin maledicent.

Questions about maledicent

What does maledicent mean?
Maledicent means reproachful in speech.
What part of speech is maledicent?
Maledicent is an adjective.

Words near maledicent in the dictionary

  1. malecontented
  2. Malecs
  3. malectin
  4. malectins
  5. maledicency
  6. maledicent
  7. maledict
  8. maledicta
  9. maledicta balloon
  10. maledicta balloons
  11. maledicted

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