All 8 Uses of
content
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- —The mockery of it, he said contentedly.†
Chpt 1contentedly = in a satisfied manner
- He looked still at her, holding back behind his look his discontent.†
Chpt 8discontent = dissatisfactionstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontent means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of content as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
- Lynch, his jockeycap low on his brow, attends him, a sneer of discontent wrinkling his face.†
Chpt 15
- EDWARD THE SEVENTH: (Dances slowly, solemnly, rattling his bucket, and sings with soft contentment) On coronation day, on coronation day, O, won't we have a merry time, Drinking whisky, beer and wine!†
Chpt 15 *contentment = satisfaction
- Devour contents in the street.†
Chpt 8
- Returned with thanks having fully digested the contents.†
Chpt 8
- Carefully avoiding a book in his pocket Sweets of, which reminded him by the by of that Cap l street library book out of date, he took out his pocketbook and, turning over the various contents it contained rapidly finally he.†
Chpt 16
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Another then put in his word: And they dressed him, says he, in a point shift and petticoat with a tippet and girdle and ruffles on his wrists and clipped his forelock and rubbed him all over with spermacetic oil and built stables for him at every turn of the road with a gold manger in each full of the best hay in the market so that he could doss and dung to his heart's content.†
Chpt 14 *
Definitions:
-
(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.