All 9 Uses of
content
in
Rose Red
- But before he left, he entered my bedroom and left a red rose on the pillow next to me, the thorns neatly removed with a penknife, the smell so luscious and filling me and my dreams with contentment.†
Chpt 4 *contentment = satisfaction
- My children fill and occupy a place in me that sings of contentment and satisfaction.†
Chpt 6
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Some effort has been made to protect the integrity of Mrs. Rimbauer and her descendants, though never at the cost of content.†
Chpt 1
- -and that to hear such talk (taken in confidence, I'm sure) adds a great deal of verisimilitude to the content of their exchange.†
Chpt 4
- I have dismissed his nanny, Miss Susan McConnell, for the present, content to be alone with my child, the heir to Rose Red.†
Chpt 6
- She has been "quiet" for many months now, content, I suppose, to use her energies to grow with the construction.†
Chpt 7 *
- Sukeena reports that the child was playing by herself and seemed quite content at the time.†
Chpt 8
- a further warning: some of the content therein is explicitly sexual, and is not intended for persons under the age of eighteen.†
Chpt 8
- To-day, I'm told Pilchert will remove the back of the dresser in an effort to reach the drawer's contents.†
Chpt 2
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.