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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Discontented.

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  • And in a noble Prince nothing is more decent and welbeseeming his greatnesse than to spare foule speeches, for that breedes hatred, and to let none humble suiters depart out of their presence (as neere as may be) miscontented.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • These marks of kindness led him, it is said, to aspire to a union with his royal mistress; but being disappointed in gaining her hand, and 'being miscontented with sundry things,' in 1564 he resigned his post of Lord Steward 'with sundry Speeches of Offence,' [13] which so displeased Elizabeth that she ordered him to confine himself to his house.

    English Book Collectors William Younger Fletcher 1871

  • And in a noble Prince nothing is more decent and welbeseeming his greatnesse than to spare foule speeches, for that breedes hatred, and to let none humble suiters depart out of their presence (as neere as may be) miscontented.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • “Madame, God giue you the grace to be so constant in your aduersities, as you haue an occasion to be miscontented with the heauy newes that

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • We hope well, that neither ye shall haue occasion to be miscontented with oure fidelitie, nor wee offended with your gouernment and Empyre.”

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • He reported of her that she said this "with such alacrity and pleasant gesture, that he might well testify that he found her not miscontented.

    Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries 1880

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