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discontentment en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /dɪskənˈtɛntmənt/

Etymology

From dis- + contentment.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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:

Forms

Relateds

discontented · discontent

Translations (1)

es descontentamiento (discontent)