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
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 Stanley J. Weyman
She paused and bridled as she surveyed the attentive company, her manner full of self-content.
From Making People Happy by Harrison Fisher
The winds and tides, and the delay, however, made no difference with Claude, nor did it interfere in the slightest with his self-content and self-complacency.
From The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia by James De Mille
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 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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