discontentment

  • 131India —    The most valued colonial possession of the British Empire. The Mughal Empire (1526–1857) had been broken, as a unified political entity to be reckoned with, for competing British and French commercial interests in India by the early eighteenth …

    Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

  • 132discontent — noun lack of contentment or satisfaction. ↘a person who is dissatisfied. Derivatives discontented adjective discontentedly adverb discontentedness noun discontentment noun …

    English new terms dictionary