All 6 Uses of
content
in
Brave New World
- …. and how, after ten minutes, the container was lifted out of the liquor and its contents re-examined;†
p. 6..0
- For of course, they didn't content themselves with merely hatching out embryos: any cow could do that.
p. 13..8content = satisfy
- In a gap between two tunnels, a nurse was delicately probing with a long fine syringe into the gelatinous contents of a passing bottle.†
p. 16..7
- There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment.
p. 42..8contentment = satisfaction
- …–would wake to these things, or rather to a dream of which these things, transformed and embellished by the soma in her blood, were the marvellous constituents, and smile once more her broken and discoloured smile of infantile contentment.
p. 200..6
- And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt.
p. 221..6 *contented = satisfied and unworried
Definition:
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(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied