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noun

Contentment n.

The state of being contented or satisfied; content. "Contentment without external honor is humility." "Godliness with contentment is great gain."

The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.

Gratification; pleasure; satisfaction. (Obs.) "At Paris the prince spent one whole day to give his mind some contentment in viewing of a famous city."

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Etymology of 'Contentment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... supposing we could catch the old fox tripping, would I consent to such and such a term of an agreement—these and the like questions he kept asking at long intervals, while he thoughtfully rolled his wine upon his tongue. When I had answered all of them, seemingly to his contentment, he fell into a still deeper muse, even the claret being now forgotten. Then he got a sheet of paper and a pencil, and set to work writing and weighing every word; and at last touched a bell and had his clerk ...

— Kidnapped • Robert Louis Stevenson

... on the mantelpiece, a great bowl of roses on the mosaic centre-table, and, as usual, a bunch of pansies on the little round table by the armchair in which Miss Wealthy always sat. She established herself there now, and took up her knitting with a little sigh of contentment. ...

— Hildegarde's Holiday - a story for girls • Laura E. Richards

... death Eloquence prejudices the subject it would advance Emperor Julian, surnamed the Apostate Endeavouring to be brief, I become obscure Engaged in the avenues of old age, being already past forty Enough to do to comfort myself, without having to console others Enslave our own contentment to the power of another? Enters lightly into a quarrel is apt to go as lightly out of it Entertain us with fables: astrologers and physicians Epicurus Establish this proposition by authority and huffing Evade this tormenting and unprofitable knowledge Even the very promises ...

— Quotes and Images From The Works of Michel De Montaigne • Michel De Montaigne

... loyalty. He has had to consider how the interests of individual citizens may harmonise with the interests of the community, how justice and liberty may be united, how the state may have both order and contentment. The application of the knowledge which he has gained—viz., the study of law to the daily facts of human society—sharpens and strengthens all his faculties, clears his judgment, helps him to distinguish true ...

— The Wearing of the Green • A.M. Sullivan

... the little valley, which four days ago was smiling with all the health of nature and the contentment of industrious man, is waxing pestiferous with the awful odor of decaying human bodies. Buzzards, invited by their disgusting instinct, gather for a promised feast, and sit and glower on neighboring perches or else circle round and round in the blue empyrean over the location ...

— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker

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