discontenting

comparative more discontenting · superlative most discontenting

1. obsoletediscontented

   Your discontenting father strive to qualify

   c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

2. obsoleteCausing discontent; dissatisfying.

   how unpleasing and discontenting the society of body must needs be between those whose mindes cannot bee fociable

   1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of discontent