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
It is perhaps useless to quarrel with the tendency of mankind to turn its eyes from disagreeable subjects, and to dwell complacently upon those which minister to self-content.
From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
"And yet I envy them for what they do not know, for what they do not see, for their self-content."
From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by Richardson, James H.
His only expression was that of haughty self-content; but there was no real pride in his bearing, and no reserve.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth
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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