discontentedness

[Eng. discontented; -ne .] The quality or state of being discontented; di atisfaction, discontent, uneasine . "A beautiful bust of Alexander the Great casts up his ne ."-Add is on: Travels. face to heaven with a noble air of grief, or discontented *dis-con-ten-tee', s . [Eng. discontent; -ee.] A discontented person; a malcontent. North Examen, p. 55. "In conventicles and among the disc on ten tees." tentful (q. v.).] Full of discontent, discontented, dis-con-tent-fül, a. [Pref. dis, and Eng. con di atisfied. *dis-con-tent'-ing, a . & s . [DISCONTENT, v.] tion; di atisfying. A. As adj .: Causing discontent or di atisfac body must needs be between those whose minds cannot "How unpleasing and discontenting the society of be sociable." - Milton : Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. ment. B. As subst.: A state of discontent; discontent P. Fletcher Eliza . "Religion blames impatient discontenting ." dis-con-tent'-Ive, a . [Eng. discontent; -ive.] Having a tendency to be discontented. "Pride is ever discontentive ."-Feltham: Resolves, 97. dis-con-tent-ment, s. [Pref. dis , and Eng. con faction, or uneasine ; want of contentment. tentment (q. v.).] A state of discontent, di at is "These are the vices that fill them with general disc on tentment."- Hooker : Eccles. Polity. *dis-con-tîg'ue, a . [Pref. dis , and Fr. contigu = contiguous.] Not contiguous, apart, "Landis lyand discontigue fra uther land is." -Balfour : Practice , p. 175. *dis-con-tig-u-ous, a . [Pref. dis , and Eng. con tiguous (q. v).] Not contiguous. -able .] That may or can be discontinued. dis-con-tin-u-a-ble, a. [Eng. discontinu (e); dis-con-tin-u-ance, s. [Pref. dis , and Eng. con tinuance (q. v.).] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A want, absence, or breaking of the continuance or adhesion of parts; a solution of continuity; a disruption or interruption of connection. "They cast themselves into round drops, which is the figure that saveth the body most from discontinuance ." Bacon Natural History . 2. A want or breaking of succe ion or discontinuance; a ce ation, an interruption, an intermi ion, a breaking off. "Let us consider whether our approaches to him are sweet and refreshing, and if we are uneasy under any long discontinuance of our conversation with him." Atterbury : Sermons , vol. ii., ser. 6. II. Law : Discontinuance of a suit : The failure on the part of the plaintiff to carry on a suit, by not continuing it as the law requires, in which case the suit is dis continued, and the defendant is no longer bound to attend, but the plaintiff must begin again, by suing out a new writ. It is somewhat similar to a nonsuit (q. v.).