All 17 Uses of
content
in
Of Human Bondage
- She lived with an elder sister, who had resigned herself contentedly to old age.†
Chpt 1-2contentedly = in a satisfied manner
- The Frau Professor contented herself with giving them both severe looks at table and, though she dared not be rude to the Chinaman, got a certain satisfaction out of incivility to Cacilie.†
Chpt 29-30contented = satisfied
- At his suggestion Mrs. Carey wrote to the solicitor, saying that Philip was discontented with his work in London, and asking what he thought of a change.†
Chpt 39-40 *discontented = not satisfiedstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontented means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of contented as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
- You seem to be a contented slave of your passions.'†
Chpt 67-68contented = satisfied
- A slave because I can't help myself, but not a contented one,' laughed Philip.†
Chpt 67-68
- He was contented with life.†
Chpt 115-116
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- With youth's lack of sympathy for an attitude other than its own he despised not a little Weeks and Hayward because they were content with the vague emotion which they called God and would not take the further step which to himself seemed so obvious.†
Chpt 27-28
- But the three elderly ladies were not content.†
Chpt 29-30
- Oh, why can't you be content to let it go on as it is?†
Chpt 33-34
- They had to content themselves for the most part with envying and abusing the ladies who received protection from painters of more settled respectability than their own.†
Chpt 43-44
- Since her passion for art was chiefly a passion to live the life of artists, she was quite content to neglect her own work.†
Chpt 47-48 *
- He began going to lunch at the shop, but Mildred stopped him: she said it made the girls talk; so he had to content himself with tea; but he always waited about to walk with her to the station; and once or twice a week they dined together.†
Chpt 61-62
- He was content with very little now.†
Chpt 63-64
- He did not expect her to write often, for he knew that letter-writing came difficultly to her; and he was quite content with the clumsy little note that arrived in reply to four of his.†
Chpt 73-74
- He wondered if Mildred and Griffiths would go to a play that evening: they must kill the evening somehow; they were too stupid, both of them to content themselves with conversation: he got a fierce delight in reminding himself of the vulgarity of their minds which suited them so exactly to one another.†
Chpt 77-78
- He enjoyed the relief from care; he need not worry there about the future, neither whether his money would last out nor whether he would pass his final examinations; and he could read to his heart's content.†
Chpt 93-94
- She took the lid off the pot, stirred the contents, and put it on again.†
Chpt 119-120
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) 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.