discontentment
English
Etymology
From dis- + contentment.[1]
Pronunciation
Audio (US): (file) - IPA(key): /dɪskənˈtɛntmənt/
Noun
discontentment (countable and uncountable, plural discontentments)
- A state of dissatisfaction or discontent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] 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: […]
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References
- ^ “discontentment, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.