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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To be an individual, to be self-content — those are nice qualities for a life.
From New York Times
In a section of the document titled “Signs of Holiness in Today’s World,” the pope explicitly laments a modern culture that includes “the self-content bred by consumerism; individualism; and all those forms of ersatz spirituality — having nothing to do with God — that dominate the current religious marketplace.”
From New York Times
Challenges “To be absolutely certain that one isn’t feeling smug or self-content. One’s got to go on concentrating on everything as if it was a new piece.”
From New York Times
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
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart, In a fellow-less firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran:— But let me live by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
From Project Gutenberg
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