self-content
Americannoun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- self-contentedly adverb
- self-contentedness noun
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
She paused and bridled as she surveyed the attentive company, her manner full of self-content.
From Making People Happy by Fisher, Harrison
"Hearty," that is what they are; it is the good side of their self-content.
From Irish Books and Irish People by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
Purslow's apron was discarded, no longer did he come out to customers in the street; if he still rubbed one hand over the other it was in self-content.
From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.
Already she was beginning to commend herself inwardly for her loyalty to her work, and Emma’s blunt arraignment of the dean of Overton College acted like a dash of cold water upon her half-fledged self-content.
From Grace Harlowe's Problem by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
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