All 3 Uses of
complacent
in
Jane Eyre
- I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child — though equally dependent and friendless — Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained for me more of the cordiality of fellow-feeling; the servants would have been less prone to make me the scapegoat of the nursery.†
p. 19.7complacently = with satisfaction or contentment (unworried and satisfied)
- Instead of speaking, I smiled; and not a very complacent or submissive smile either.†
p. 156.5 *complacent = unworried and satisfied
- But as matters really stood, to watch Miss Ingram's efforts at fascinating Mr. Rochester, to witness their repeated failure — herself unconscious that they did fail; vainly fancying that each shaft launched hit the mark, and infatuatedly pluming herself on success, when her pride and self-complacency repelled further and further what she wished to allure — to witness THIS, was to be at once under ceaseless excitation and ruthless restraint.†
p. 217.0complacency = contentment (often unworried to a fault)
Definition:
contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault