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self-conˈtented, ppl. a.
[self- 3 a.]
Self-satisfied. So self-conˈtentedly adv.; self-conˈtentedness, self-conˈtentment, self-satisfaction; † self-conˈtenting a., self-satisfying.
1819Shelley Rosalind & Helen 29 Men, women, children, slunk away, Whispering with *self-contented pride. 1862Thornbury Turner I. 16 One of those self-contented fussy men.
1844Mrs. Browning Early Rose xlvi. Poems (1850) II. 299 Ye to yourselves suffice,..*Self-contentedly approve you Unto Him who sits above you.
1691Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 168 What an inward sufficiency and *Self-Contentedness. 1897W. C. Hazlitt Ourselves 34 The wide prevalence of self-contentedness and self-complacency.
1647H. More Exorcismus ii, Whose inward like Is *self-contenting joy. 1647Trapp Comm. Luke ii. 16 He would chuse to live and dye in his self-contenting secresie.
1815Jane Austen Emma iii. xiv. 374 He..talked on with much *self-contentment. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt I. x. 232 Esther felt herself seriously shaken in her self-contentment. |