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† misconˈtented, a. Obs. [mis-1 6, 7. Cf. discontented.] Discontented, dissatisfied, displeased.
1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) D vij, It was no reson, that suche as came to his seruyce shoulde retourne myscontented. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. xviii. §7. 312 So it fareth with miscontented mindes. Their own desires plague them. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Spalding Club) I. 78 Ane Meingzie of miscontentit puritanes. 1826Galt Last of Lairds vii, Had she gotten a gentleman of family, I would not have been overly miscontented. So † misconˈtentedly adv., discontentedly.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 296 Neither ought we to take it miscontentedly that the outward man be destroyed so that the inwarde man be renued. |