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
John Waters, John the self-absorbed, With thoughts for ever inward bent, Complacent, self-contained, self-orbed, Wrapped in eternal self-content.
From The Guards Came Through and Other Poems by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
Edmund teased her several times, and would not let her settle down into her usual state of self-content, but after dinner she wisely took refuge with the merciful Rose.
From Great Possessions by Ward, Wilfrid, Mrs.
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
"I did see my way," said Brisket, with much self-content.
From The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Trollope, Anthony
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