Disconsolated
(Dis*con"so*la`ted) a. Disconsolate. [Obs.]
A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature.
Sterne. Disconsolation
(Dis*con`so*la"tion) n. Dejection; grief. [R.] Bp. Hall.
Discontent
(Dis`con*tent") a. Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor.
Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet.
Bunyan. Discontent
(Dis`con*tent"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discontented; p. pr. & vb. n. Discontenting.] To deprive
of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy. Suckling.
Discontent
(Dis`con*tent"), 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. Discontentation
(Dis*con`ten*ta"tion) n. Discontent. [Obs.] Ascham.
Discontented
(Dis`con*tent"ed) p. p. & a. Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent.
And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented,
gathered themselves unto him.
1 Sam. xxii. 2. — Dis`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. — Dis`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
Discontentful
(Dis`con*tent"ful) a. Full of discontent. [R.]
Discontenting
(Dis`con*tent"ing), a.
1. Discontented. [Obs.] Shak.
2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.
Discontentive
(Dis`con*tent"ive) a. Relating or tending to discontent. [R.] "Pride is ever discontentive."
Feltham.
Discontentment
(Dis`con*tent"ment) n. The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.
Discontinuable
(Dis`con*tin"u*a*ble) a. Admitting of being discontinued. [R.]
Discontinuance
(Dis`con*tin"u*ance) n.
1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking
off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway
or of travel.
2. (Law) (a) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made
by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled
