self-content
Americannoun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-content
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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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
Her wrinkled face and care-worn look tell a different tale from the pompous self-content of the merchant by her side, who drives as hard a bargain as she does.
From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Budgett Meakin
These mixed feelings ruffled the bright surface of her self-content, inflated as it was by her increasing social success.
From A Crooked Path A Novel by Mrs. Alexander
Sally indolent, Sally dreaming her own small and rather selfish dreams, or a Sally self-assured and self-content were not unfamiliar figures to her world.
From The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor by Margaret Vandercook
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament.
From The Shepherd Psalm A Meditation by William Evans
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