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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Shak. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent. Hallam

2. A discontented person; a malcontent. [R.] Thus was the Scotch nation full of discontents. Fuller.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To deprive if content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy. Suckling.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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