discontenting
English
Adjective
discontenting (comparative more discontenting, superlative most discontenting)
- (obsolete) discontented
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Your discontenting father strive to qualify
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- (obsolete) Causing discontent; dissatisfying.
- 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], OCLC 1203280161:
- how unpleasing and discontenting the society of body must needs be between those whose mindes cannot bee fociable
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for discontenting in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)