malcontentment

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Noun[edit]

malcontentment (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being malcontent.
    • 1876, History of Canada from the Time of Its Discovery Till the Union of 1840-41:
      Whilst, by the above language and acts accordant, Lord Durham was provoking our malcontentment up to the latest moment, the refugees from Canada in the United States, and the armed Americans who sympathised with them, turned the public discontents to account by organizing an invasion, in connexion with a simultaneous rising of the people of both Canadas.