All 5 Uses of
content
in
Ethan Frome
- Nevertheless, I might have contented myself with the story pieced together from these hints had it not been for the provocation of Mrs. Hale's silence, and-a little later-for the accident of personal contact with the man.†
Chpt Open (definition 1)
- He had been afraid that she would hate the hard life, the cold and loneliness; but not a sign of discontent escaped her.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *
- She was a hundred times bitterer and more discontented than when he had married her: the one pleasure left her was to inflict pain on him.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- He had scattered the contents of the table-drawer in his search for a sheet of paper, and as he took up his pen his eye fell on an old copy of the Bettsbridge Eagle.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Hitherto Ethan Frome had been content to think him a mean fellow; but now he positively invited a horse-whipping.†
Chpt 1 (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.