All 9 Uses
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Sweet Far Thing
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- It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.†
Chpt 1contentment = satisfaction
- Far away, I hear my grandmother call my name, confused, and then, time slows till they are a strange, frozen tableau: Father, his head in his hands; Grandmama stirring her worry into her tea; Tom with a scowl on his face that speaks to his discontent with us.†
Chpt 2 *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.
- Discontent ripples through the assembly.†
Chpt 3
- It will only bring discontent.†
Chpt 3
- "The discontent festered," Gorgon continues after a pause.†
Chpt 3
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- They seem so content to be together.†
Chpt 1
- The moon sits fat and content.†
Chpt 2
- They seem content.†
Chpt 2
- They chatter with one another; mothers offer children small bits of food to keep them content; fathers look on admiringly; ladies traveling together watch the scenery roll by with excited smiles.†
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 too rare to warrant focus) The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.