miscontent

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ content

Adjective

miscontent (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) discontent
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 23, 27–28:
      Thys boke we have devysed, […]
      In hope that no man shall
      Be myscontent withall.

Verb

miscontent (third-person singular simple present miscontents, present participle miscontenting, simple past and past participle miscontented)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) discontent

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “miscontent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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