All 18 Uses
content
in
Howards End
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- Even Margaret shrank from it, and contented herself with stroking her good aunt's hand, and with meditating, half sensibly and half poetically, on the journey that was about to begin from King's Cross.†
Part 2contented = satisfied
- But this was unkind, and she contented herself with, "Why, he might have stolen the little Ricketts picture as well."†
Part 5
- Jacky ate contentedly enough, occasionally looking at her man with those anxious eyes, to which nothing else in her appearance corresponded, and which yet seemed to mirror her soul.†
Part 6contentedly = in a satisfied manner
- I don't say in your case, but in too many cases that attitude leads to morbidity, discontent, and Socialism.†
Part 16 *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.
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- It makes one feel so wild, when I've pretended to the people here that you're my wife—all right, all right, you SHALL be my wife—and I've bought you the ring to wear, and I've taken this flat furnished, and it's far more than I can afford, and yet you aren't content, and I've also not told the truth when I've written home.†
Part 6
- Miss Schlegel waited her turn, and finally had to be content with an insidious "temporary," being rejected by genuine housemaids on the ground of her numerous stairs.†
Part 7
- Considered item by item, the emotional content was minimised, and all went forward smoothly.†
Part 11
- She returned to Wickham Place full of her own affairs—she had had another proposal—and Margaret, after a moment's hesitation, was content that this should be so.†
Part 12 *
- You've not been content to dream as we have—†
Part 14
- Not content with"—pointing at Margaret—"you can't deny it."†
Part 16
- He had not the knack of surrounding himself with nice people—indeed, for a man of ability and virtue his choice had been singularly unfortunate; he had no guiding principle beyond a certain preference for mediocrity; he was content to settle one of the greatest things in life haphazard, and so, while his investments went right, his friends generally went wrong.†
Part 25
- Whether Sir James, who was Garden Seeds, had promised what he could perform, she doubted, but so long as Henry mistook them for the county families when they did call, she was content.†
Part 26
- She supposed that these were unpunctual guests, who would have to be content with vicarious civility, since Evie and Charles were gone, Henry tired, and the others in their rooms.†
Part 26
- Tibby wished neither to strengthen the position of the rich nor to improve that of the poor, and so was well content to watch the elms nodding behind the mildly embattled parapets of Magdalen.†
Part 30
- Not content with going abroad, why does she want to go back there at once?†
Part 34
- The contents of his mother's will had long been known to them.†
Part 11
- She had gone out of life vividly, her own way, and no dust was so truly dust as the contents of that heavy coffin, lowered with ceremonial until it rested on the dust of the earth, no flowers so utterly wasted as the chrysanthemums that the frost must have withered before morning.†
Part 12
- The hall was fitted up with the contents of the library from Wickham Place.†
Part 33
Definitions:
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(1)
(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2)
(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.