malcontent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MAL'CONTENT, noun [mal and content.] A discontented subject of government; one who murmurs at the laws and administration, or who manifests his uneasiness by overt acts, as in sedition or insurrection. MAL'CONTENT
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