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unconˈtented, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. discontented.]
Not contented; unsatisfied.
1568T. Howell Newe Sonets (1879) 124 Mewsing how I best might ease mine vncontented minde. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 31 Perturbations..which fill the soule with endlesse trouble and disquietnes, causing man to live alwaies uncontented. 1605Daniel Philotas Ded. A iv, When your iudgment shal ariue so far, As t' ouerlooke th' intricate designes Of vncontented man. 1675Art Contentm. i. xii, The torture which every repining uncontented spirit provides for its self. 1718G. Sewell Proclam. Cupid 4 Thus uncontented with a private Wrong, He spreads his Baseness with a busie Tongue. 1861Mill Repr. Govt. (1865) 24/1 Nothing is more certain, than that improvement in human affairs is wholly the work of the uncontented characters.
Hence unconˈtentedness.
a1660Hammond Fundamentals xi. Wks. 1674 I. 298 Contentedness is most eminently one of these specialties,..as it is opposed to ambition, covetousness, injustice, uncontentedness. |