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
When he crossed the stage to them, it was with his former air of dogged indifference and cynical self-content.
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir
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 De Mille, James
Abraham sat down, cross-legged, and watched with impish self-content while David strode back and forth in the patio.
From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max
For these are necessary if for no more than as alarm clocks to awake us from our dreaming self-content.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
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