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conˈtentful, a. Now rare.
[f. content n.2 + -ful.]
Full of content: a. Characterized by contentment, contented, satisfied. †b. Causing content or satisfaction, satisfying. †c. Easily contented or appeased, placable.
1542Udall Erasm. Apophth. 112 b, That he might bee hable with a paciente and contentefull mynde, to endure banyshemente. 1552Huloet, Contentfull, placabilis, placendus. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 364 His contentfull mansion. 1599Massinger, etc. Old Law iv. ii, But all that's known to be contentful to thee Shall in the use prove deadly. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis v. xii. 369 To enjoy the safety of their contentfull poverty within the walls of the Cloyster. a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. xi. (1640) 120 Shee was every way contentfull and pleasing unto Abraham. 1652J. Audley Eng. Commw. 38 Gentle and contentfull souldiers. 1662–3Pepys Diary 10 Feb., After some contentful talk with my wife. 1716Cibber Love Makes Man v. ii. 73 The contentful Peace..of an honest Mind. 1863Pilgrimage over Prairies I. 9 The first [journey] for many years that had drawn me from my contentful home.
Hence † conˈtentfully adv., † conˈtentfulness.
1552Huloet, Contentfullye, placabiliter. 1665Pepys Diary 23 June, We spent two or three hours talking of several matters very soberly and contentfully to me. Ibid. 24 July (D.), The contentfulness of our errand, and the nobleness of the company. 1685H. More Paralip. Prophet. 89 For the more contentfully peracting this Tax. |