discontentment

noun

discontentment

noun

/dɪskənˈtɛntmənt/

Etymology From dis- + contentment.

1

A state of dissatisfaction or discontent.

  • By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297:
Related terms
discontent, discontented

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