Both Uses of
complacent
in
Paradise Lost
- Admiration seized All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend, Wondering; but soon th' Almighty thus replied: O thou in Heaven and Earth the only peace Found out for mankind under wrath, O thou My sole complacence!†
Book 3
- I, by conversing, cannot these erect
From prone; nor in their ways complacence find.
Book 8 *complacence = pleasure (to be unworried and satisfied)
Definition:
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(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault