a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clix. f. lxxxvii^v Withoute consent or knowlege of..Lawes and some deale to the discontentyng of his mynde.

1593 T. W. Tears of Fancie v. sig. A4 Then Cupid..Vnto his mother vowd my discontenting.

1632 P. Harris Excommunication viii. 50 Least by offending and discontenting of them, they should not so easily draw in others.

1754 T. Birch Mem. Reign Queen Elizabeth II. vii. 24 The king was resolved, saving his honour and the discontenting of his people, to satisfy her majesty's will in that particular.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 15 A practical disfranchisement of all above, and a discontenting of all below.

1859 Evening Herald 10 Feb. A system of government whose result could but be the discontenting of the population and provocation to disorder.

1900 J. N. Larned Hist. Eng. xii. 262 He had shrewdly avoided laying heavy burdens of general taxation on the country, thinking it safer to do great wrong to some than to risk the discontenting of all.

c1525 J. Rastell New Commodye Propertes of Women sig. Bii^v His werynes feblenes his discontentyng His chyldishnes.

1612 G. Wither Prince Henries Obsequies sig. E2 Goe tell the Queene..There is no cause of that her discontenting.

?1670 Languishing Lover Cured (single sheet) The Arrows in my sheave cause this Discontenting.

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xi. 640 He had receiued aduertisement that the truce was discontenting to Cæsar.

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. E2, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) That..which in the ende..will be to you most discontenting.

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 20 How unpleasing and discontenting the society of body must needs be between those whose mindes cannot bee sociable.

a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 221 The continual tentations of most discontenting melancholy.

1825 T. Carlyle Life F. Schiller ii. 67 Literature is apt to form a dangerous and discontenting occupation.

1850 P. Leicester Ada Greville ix. 163 Ada grieved to part from her kind friend on such discontenting terms.

1914 W. S. Davis & N. S. McKendrick Hist. Mediæval & Mod. Europe xxxv. 457 The German arrangements of the congress were discontenting alike to the Prussian King and to the German people.

1946 Life 10 June 103/1 Her guests still find her standing like a rock amid the swirling currents of discontenting change.

1994 M. Kirk Green Sands iv. 45 It was somehow discontenting and difficult to have only one free afternoon a week.

1605 Famous Hist. Capt. Stukeley sig. I^v Leaue such discontenting speach.

1613 F. Robartes Revenue of Gospel 115 That..not one sower looke, not one discontenting gesture be observed.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 532 And with my best endeuours..Your discontenting Father, striue to qualifie. View more context for this quotation

1622 W. Guild Issachars Asse 11 In discontenting amazement,..they may justlie say, That they have gotten both Preaching and Pennance together.