self-contentmentn.

1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iv. 53 I would willingly please, or not displease, as I may: but no Life, without self-contentment: no performance of any action without Resolution.

1637 J. Sym Lifes Preservative against Self-killing xi. 155 The self-contentment, that men take in their owne sinfull waies.

1648 Bp. J. Hall Select Thoughts 61 There is all quietness, secure ease, and self-contentment in the soul, till Christ come there.

1763 S. Greenaway Addr. Honest Eng. Hearts p. xi I must not now..run over a Weekly Courant, or a Monthly Magazine.., merely for matter of chat with my neighbours, or for motives of Self-Contentment and Thankfulness to God's good Providence for placing me so happily out of the bustle and contentions of the world.

1816 J. Austen Emma III. xiv. 254 He..talked on with much self-contentment . View more context for this quotation

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. x. 232 Esther felt herself seriously shaken in her self-contentment.

1913 Business Philosopher July 419/1 My definition of happiness is absolute self-contentment.

1960 Ebony June 81/2 That same old something is just behind the eyes, maybe it is happiness, self contentment or some other nice thing.

2015 New Statesman 20 Feb. 20/3 The bland self-contentment slipping into irked dismissal.