Both Uses of
content
in
Lord of the Flies
- Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship, adventure, and content.
p. 39.8content = satisfaction
- The pig-run kept close to the jumble of rocks that lay down by the water on the other side and Ralph was content to follow Jack along it.
p. 109.1 *content = satisfied
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) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.