All 19 Uses of
content
in
The Idiot
- He commenced to examine the study and its contents.†
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1)
- Mrs. Epanchin began to show signs of discontent, and that was a serious matter.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1) *
- Nearly the whole of the outer covering was burned away, but it was soon evident that the contents were hardly touched.†
Chpt 1.16 (definition 1)
- She did not divulge its contents either to her daughters or the general, but her conduct towards the former became affectionate in the extreme.†
Chpt 2.1 (definition 1)
- Certainly he could not have read that passage…… "As a matter of fact, I did not read it," interrupted the boxer, "but its contents had been given me on unimpeachable authority, and I…."†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1)
- "Allow me, gentlemen," said Gavrila Ardalionovitch, who had just examined the contents of the envelope, "there are only a hundred roubles here, not two hundred and fifty.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1)
- 'I am myself a medical man' (he did not say 'doctor'), with which words he waved his hands towards the room and its contents as though in protest at his present condition.†
Chpt 3.6 (definition 1)
- Aglaya did not begin the conversation, but contented herself with watching her companion intently.†
Chpt 3.8 (definition 1)
- I think such an individual really does become a type of his own—a type of commonplaceness which will not for the world, if it can help it, be contented, but strains and yearns to be something original and independent, without the slightest possibility of being so.†
Chpt 4.1 (definition 1)
- He did not speak much, only answering such questions as were put to him, and gradually settled down into unbroken silence, listening to what went on, and steeped in perfect satisfaction and contentment.†
Chpt 4.6 (definition 1)
- Very probably he passed disturbed nights, and was afflicted with bad dreams; but, during the daytime, among his fellow-men, he seemed as kind as ever, and even contented; only a little thoughtful when alone.†
Chpt 4.10 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- If she cannot receive you now, you must be content to wait till another time.†
Chpt 1.3 (definition 2)
- She asks me what I come for, as if she were not content with having disgraced me—†
Chpt 2.3 (definition 2)
- It is too late to read the letters now; I am content to state the fact.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 2) *
- Doktorenko disagrees with me, but I am content to differ from him on this point.†
Chpt 2.12 (definition 2)
- Perhaps Lizabetha Prokofievna was alone in making these fretful observations; the girls, though not wanting in intelligence, were still young; the general was intelligent, too, but narrow, and in any difficulty he was content to say, "H'm!" and leave the matter to his wife.†
Chpt 3.1 (definition 2)
- Therefore, without entering into any more serious examination of the question, I will content myself with remarking that in real life typical characters are "watered down," so to speak; and all these Dandins and Podkoleosins actually exist among us every day, but in a diluted form.†
Chpt 4.1 (definition 2)
- I don't ask either admission or confirmation of this from yourself; I am quite content to leave you to your conscience, and to feel that we understand one another capitally."†
Chpt 4.2 (definition 2)
- It is much better for the writer, as a rule, to content himself with the bare statement of events; and we shall take this line with regard to the catastrophe recorded above, and shall state the remaining events connected with the general's trouble shortly, because we feel that we have already given to this secondary character in our story more attention than we originally intended.†
Chpt 4.3 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.