well-content
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of well-content
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
Example Sentences
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For after a time he seemed no longer quiet and well-content.
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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.
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Yea, I believe that at that time her soul itself was altogether cheerful and well-content and without any shadow of sorrow upon it.
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As he lay in front of his fire, on an elastic, sweet-scented bed of small spruce boughs, with a semicircle of larger ones planted in the ground behind him, and their feathery tips drooping gracefully above his head, he was as happy and well-content as ever in his life.
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But her subjects care not; they are fat and well-content; the goddess smiles on them, and they are the richest in the world.
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