Uncontented

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8. Cf. DISCONTENTED.] Not contented; unsatisfied.

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1568. T. Howell, Newe Sonets (1879), 124. Mewsing how I best might ease mine vncontented minde.

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1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., I. 31. Perturbations … which fill the soule with endlesse trouble and disquietnes, causing man to live alwaies uncontented.

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1605. Daniel, Philotas, Ded. A iv. When your iudgment shal ariue so far, As t’ ouerlooke th’intricate designes Of vncontented man.

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1675. Art Contentm., I. xii. The torture which every repining uncontented spirit provides for its self.

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1718. G. Sewell, Proclam. Cupid, 4. Thus uncontented with a private Wrong, He spreads his Baseness with a busie Tongue.

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1861. Mill, Repr. Govt. (1865), 24/1. Nothing is more certain, than that improvement in human affairs is wholly the work of the uncontented characters.

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Hence Uncontentedness.

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a. 1660. Hammond, Fundamentals, xi. Wks. 1674, I. 258. Contentedness is most eminently one of these specialties,… as it is opposed to ambition, covetousness, injustice, uncontentedness.

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