self-content
Americannoun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-content
First recorded in 1645–55
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Cricket is linked with the Golden Age of English power and self-content, the idyll that supposedly existed before the First World War.
From Newsweek
And vanity torn out by the roots—a megalomaniac egotism done away by a capital operation—a life-long self-content, an ingrown selfishness, all wrenched out at once—that sort of thing takes its toll in the doing.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough
There was, to tell the truth, even a slight shade of self-content and approbation upon his handsome countenance.
From The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
For these are necessary if for no more than as alarm clocks to awake us from our dreaming self-content.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
You go serenely on your way, wrapped in a cloak of supreme self-content and satisfaction.
From Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story by Amy Le Feuvre
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