well-content
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of well-content
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
Example Sentences
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There where in courts afar, all unconfused, they crowd, As fumes the starlight soft In gulfs of cloud, And each to the other, well-content, Sighs oft, ‘’Twas this we meant!’
From The Unknown Eros by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Or well-content that ye have thus reduced485 Achaia's host, will ye retire to Troy?
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
In hand and foot and speech whoso is self restrained; Whoso to ponder inwardly delights, Who liveth lonely and is well-content, Him men call mendicant.
From The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada by Frank Lee Woodward
Charlie answered, laughing; 'we young scamps must be well-content with coarser stuff than thou wouldst have.'
From Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Dead is my well-content, And buried deep my pride.
From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by Walter De la Mare
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