Meanings
adjectivemaledicent (comparative more maledicent, superlative most maledicent)
comparative more maledicent · superlative most maledicent
- archaicReproachful 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 - archaicSlanderous.
Origin
- Latinmaledicent
- Englishmaledicent
From Latin maledicent.
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maledicent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maledicent
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“maledicent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maledicent. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
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