maltalent

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  1. Evil disposition or inclination; ill-will; resentment; displeasure; spleen. Wax he rody for shame, and loked on hym with maltalent, and yef thei hadde be a-lone he wolde with hym haue foughten. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 536. As she that hadde it al to-rent, For angre and for maltalent. Rom. of the Rose, l. 330. So forth he went With heavy look and lumpish pace, that plaine In him bewraid great grudge and maltalent. Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 61. That is the lot of them that the Black Douglas bears maltalent against. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth, xii.

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  1. Also maletalent; from Middle English maletalent, from Old French maltalent, ill-humor, anger; as mal- + talent.
 

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