All 3 Uses of
content
in
Animal Farm
- Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.
p. 6..2 *contentedly = in a satisfied manner
- 'None of you has ever seen a dead donkey,' and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.
p. 30..7content = satisfied
- On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D. Finally he decided to be content with the first four letters, and used to write them out once or twice every day to refresh his memory.
p. 33..6
Definition:
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(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied