discontentment

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ contentment.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɪskənˈtɛntmənt/

Noun

discontentment (countable and uncountable, plural discontentments)

  1. A state of dissatisfaction or discontent.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297:
      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:

References

  1. ^ “discontentment, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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