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
It may, however, be pointed out that in so far as an object is cognized by the mind, it becomes in a sense part of the complex self-content.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
The Englishman, armed in his panoply of self-content, and grasping facts with unequalled tenacity, goes on trampling upon acuter sensibilities, but somehow shouldering his way successfully through the troubles of the universe.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
"And yet I envy them for what they do not know, for what they do not see, for their self-content."
From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by James H. Richardson
Since I crossed the Tigris, I know not that I have felt such self-content.
From Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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