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
Have seen Katiusha, and, because of my self-content, was unkind and angry, and departed with a feeling of oppression.
From The Awakening The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Count
He had hoped to provoke from the plaisant some further expression of self-content in his plans for the future, but the other had become guarded.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
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 Sir Max Pemberton
As Dick climbed in beside her, she bent her head to Lestrange; if she had regretted her impulsive confidence, again the clear sanity and calm of the gray eyes she encountered established self-content.
From The Flying Mercury by Edmund Frederick
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