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
This self-content of his kept him in general good humour, of which his friends and dependants got the benefit.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
He had hoped to provoke from the plaisant some further expression of self-content in his plans for the future, but the other had become guarded.
From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart
This was an amiable reflection and one that ministered greatly to his self-content.
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir
On the active side, the independence of mind is seen in self-enjoyment, in happiness, or self-content, where impulse and volition have attained satisfaction in equilibrium, and the soul possesses itself in fullness.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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