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
John Waters, John the self-absorbed, With thoughts for ever inward bent, Complacent, self-contained, self-orbed, Wrapped in eternal self-content.
From The Guards Came Through and Other Poems by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
It is too early for you to bother over problems of self-improvement—as for me it is too late; wherefore we are alike in the calm of our self-content.
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick
This was an amiable reflection and one that ministered greatly to his self-content.
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Sir Max Pemberton
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