contentive
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of contentive
Example Sentences
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If one place of it be moorish, miry, and unpleasant, another makes a free tender of delight, and presents itself to the eye full of beauty and contentive variety.”
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
It is a healthful sickness in the soul, a pleasing passion in the heart, a contentive labour in the mind, and a peaceful trouble of the senses.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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