self-content
Americannoun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- self-contentedly adverb
- self-contentedness noun
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
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.
Her wrinkled face and care-worn look tell a different tale from the pompous self-content of the merchant by her side, who drives as hard a bargain as she does.
From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Meakin, Budgett
And vanity torn out by the roots—a megalomaniac egotism done away by a capital operation—a life-long self-content, an ingrown selfishness, all wrenched out at once—that sort of thing takes its toll in the doing.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson
Purslow's apron was discarded, no longer did he come out to customers in the street; if he still rubbed one hand over the other it was in self-content.
From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.
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