Word Meanings - CONTENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Content; satisfaction. Bacon.

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• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• CONTENTLY
  In a contented manner.
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• CONTENTED
  Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing. -- Con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Con*tent"ed*ness, n.
• CONTENTION
  1. A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. I would my arcontenion. Shak. 2. Strife in words; controversy; altercation quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention. Contentions and strivings about the law.
• SATISFACTION
  1. The act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied; gratification of desire; contentment in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with its desires or demands. The mind having a power to suspend the execution
• CONTENTS
  See N
• CONTENTATION
  Content; satisfaction. Bacon.
• CONTENT
  Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest. Having food rainment, let us be therewith content. 1 Tim. vi. 8.
• CONTENTFUL
  Full of content. Barrow.
• CONTENTLESS
  Discontented; dissatisfied. Shak.
• UNSATISFACTION
  Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
• DISCONTENT
  Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
• INSATISFACTION
  1. Insufficiency; emptiness. Bacon. 2. Dissatisfaction. Sir T. Browne.
• MALCONTENTED
  Malcontent. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
• MALECONTENT
  Malcontent.
• INCONTENTATION
  Discontent. Goodwin.
• DISCONTENTATION
  Discontent. Ascham.
• MALCONTENT
  discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government. The famous malcontent earl of Leicester. Milner.
• DISCONTENTIVE
  Relating or tending to discontent. "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.
• DISCONTENTING
  1. Discontented. Shak. 2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.
• DISCONTENTED
  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.