All 7 Uses of
content
in
The Winter's Tale
- your ruin,—marry her; And,—with my best endeavours in your absence— Your discontenting father strive to qualify, And bring him up to liking.†
Scene 4.4 *discontenting = satisfyingstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontenting reverses the meaning of contenting. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
- The violent carriage of it Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,— Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up,— Shall the contents discover, something rare Even then will rush to knowledge.†
Scene 3.1
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Would they else be content to die?†
Scene 1.1
- I had rather you did lack than I, my lord, Upon this ground: and more it would content me To have her honour true than your suspicion; Be blam'd for't how you might.†
Scene 2.1
- O Paulina, We honour you with trouble:—but we came To see the statue of our queen: your gallery Have we pass'd through, not without much content In many singularities; but we saw not That which my daughter came to look upon, The statue of her mother.†
Scene 5.3
- What you can make her do I am content to look on: what to speak, I am content to hear; for 'tis as easy To make her speak as move.†
Scene 5.3 *
- What you can make her do I am content to look on: what to speak, I am content to hear; for 'tis as easy To make her speak as move.†
Scene 5.3
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) The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.