All 8 Uses of
content
in
Measure for Measure
- Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away; Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.†
Scene 4.1 *discontent = 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.
- The contents of this is the return of the duke; you shall anon over-read it at your pleasure, where you shall find within these two days he will be here.†
Scene 4.2
- Now will I write letters to Angelo,—The provost, he shall bear them,—whose contents Shall witness to him I am near at home, And that, by great injunctions, I am bound To enter publicly: him I'll desire To meet me at the consecrated fount, A league below the city; and from thence, By cold gradation and well-balanced form.†
Scene 4.3
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Be you content, fair maid: It is the law, not I, condemns your brother: Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son, It should be thus with him;—he must die to-morrow.†
Scene 2.2
- Be satisfied; Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.†
Scene 2.2
- How will you do to content this substitute, and to save your brother?†
Scene 3.1
- The image of it gives me content already; and I trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection.†
Scene 3.1
- Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind; but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman.†
Scene 4.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2)
(meaning too 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.