"maledicent" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin maledicent.",
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      "form": "more maledicent",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; nay actually fire?",
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        "Reproachful in speech."
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        "(archaic) Reproachful in speech."
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        "Slanderous."
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        "(archaic) Slanderous."
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        "(archaic) Reproachful in speech."
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        "(archaic) Slanderous."
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