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malcontents
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n. (plural of malcontent English)
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The Malcontents were a faction of gentlemen in the Fifth French War of Religion (1574–1576). It opposed the policy of Henry of Valois, duc d'Anjou, who had become king under the name Henry III, and allied itself to the Huguenots. The leader was the King's brother Francis, Duke of Anjou.
The main goal of the Malcontents was to oppose the absolutist ambitions of the King. They were unhappy (malcontent) with the way the King treated the old French nobility.
The Malcontent movement has been compared to the Fronde, 70 years later.
Usage examples of "malcontents".
Somewhere out of sight in the back of beyond where it can dump malcontents and troublemakers.
If the Bureau of Appointments had really tried to assemble a collection of prize malcontents inside one hapless hull they could not have done better.
But in all likelihood Davinas had never been cursed with a full crew of malcontents, and would have been able to extract and dump the occasional bad apple from this barrel without being obliged to fill in forms in quintuplicate to explain just why.
Security had a damn sight more on its mind than a couple of small-time malcontents and a disputed miner craft.
After you have returned from the Twin Cities, then the malcontents might agitate matters.
It was occupied mainly by the warriors of Class War, a loose collective of malcontents made up principally of Oxbridge graduates who wanted to destroy the state, probably because unlike most of their friends they had failed to get high-ranking jobs at the BBC.