discontentationn.
/ˌdɪskəntɛnˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌdɪskənˌtɛnˈteɪʃən/ rare after 18th cent. † 2. A cause of discontent, a grievance. Obsolete.
1. Dissatisfaction; displeasure; = discontentment n. 2.In quot. 1951 representing uneducated speech in rural Ireland.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [noun]
unlikinga1398
aggrudging1440
grudge1477
miscontenting1495
murmurheada1500
discontentation?1510
discontentinga1513
miscontentationa1530
miscontentment1535
insatisfaction1568
discontentment1572
discontent1581
malcontentment1587
miscontent1588
discontentedness1589
malcontent1591
malcontentedness1592
repine1593
bad satisfaction1607
dissatisfaction1640
unsatisfactoriness1643
unsatisfiedness1646
uncontentedness1654
disaffection1697
dissatisfiedness1710
chagrin1717
repinement1743
malcontentism1813
soreheadedness1860
uncontent1873
?1510 Let. from Fellows Pembroke Coll. Cambr. 9 Apr. in Lett. Richard Fox (1929) 48 For the which discontentacion we be ryght sory and hevy.
1530 King Henry VIII Let. in R. Fiddes Life Wolsey (1724) Collect. 181 Being informed, to our no little Marvell and Discontentation [etc.].
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. sig. Hh5 Rather then my ease discontentation Should breed to her, let me for aye deiected be From any ioy, which might her griefe occasion.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 567/1 To the high discontentation..of the English Subiects.
1684 J. Strype tr. J. Lightfoot Horæ Hebraicæ in Wks. II. 462 Discontentation and repining at their wages.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. II. App. x. 155 For the discontentation they have of the queen's majesty.
1951 S. O'Casey Time to Go in Sel. Plays (1954) 781 You must be th' boyo who th' Sergeant told me was spreadin' ideas about incitin' to discontentation everywhere.
2007 R. Lanham Style (rev. ed.) 191 Sometimes..this scribal variation altered the text, to the great discontentation of textual scholars.
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the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > [noun] > cause of indignation or resentment
discontentation1573
discontentment1580
discontent1588
gravamen1647
1573 T. Bedingfield tr. G. Cardano Comforte i. sig. Aiiiv Who so would consider how many discontentations do happen & diligently marke euery one of them, should finde to what smal purpose in aduersitye a man tormenteth himselfe.
1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie ii. iii. 291 Who can number the hurtes and discontentations, that dailie insue vppon vs, from our neighbours?
1595 T. Bedingfield tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. iii. 84 He..could not among so many discontentations liue contented.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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