discontenting

discontenting (comparative more discontenting, superlative most discontenting)

1. (obsolete) discontented
   • 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):

     Your discontenting father strive to qualify

2. (obsolete) Causing discontent; dissatisfying.
   • 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:

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

discontenting

1. present participle and gerund of discontent

• “discontenting”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.