All 7 Uses of

content
in
Utopia, by Thomas More

I think my friends ought to rest contented with this, and not to expect that for their sakes I should enslave myself to any king whatsoever.†
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contented = satisfied

not contented with the old rents which their farms yielded, nor thinking it enough that they, living at their ease, do no good to the public, resolve to do it hurt instead of good.†

But the method that I liked best was that which I observed in my travels in Persia, among the Polylerits, who are a considerable and well-governed people: they pay a yearly tribute to the King of Persia, but in all other respects they are a free nation, and governed by their own laws: they lie far from the sea, and are environed with hills; and, being contented with the productions of their own country, which is very fruitful, they have little commerce with any other nation; and as they, according to the genius of their country, have no inclination to enlarge their borders, so their mountains and the pension they pay to the Persian, secure them from all invasions.†

Upon which the good prince was forced to quit his new kingdom to one of his friends (who was not long after dethroned), and to be contented with his old one.†

Thus all little discontents in families are removed, that they may offer up their devotions with a pure and serene mind; for they hold it a great impiety to enter upon them with disturbed thoughts, or with a consciousness of their bearing hatred or anger in their hearts to any person whatsoever; and think that they should become liable to severe punishments if they presumed to offer sacrifices without cleansing their hearts, and reconciling all their differences.†

discontents = (noun) causes of dissatisfaction OR (verb) causes dissatisfaction

standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontents means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of contents--which in this case referred to people who are contented prior to being reverse. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.

Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:

While in other places four or five upper garments of woollen cloth of different colours, and as many vests of silk, will scarce serve one man, and while those that are nicer think ten too few, every man there is content with one, which very often serves him two years; nor is there anything that can tempt a man to desire more, for if he had them he would neither be the, warmer nor would he make one jot the better appearance for it.†

And thus, since they are all employed in some useful labour, and since they content themselves with fewer things, it falls out that there is a great abundance of all things among them; so that it frequently happens that, for want of other work, vast numbers are sent out to mend the highways; but when no public undertaking is to be performed, the hours of working are lessened.†
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Definitions:

(1) (content as in: content with how things are)
satisfied
(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus)
meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:

The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.