All 4 Uses of
content
in
Black Like Me
- My first afternoon as a Negro was one of dragging hours and a certain contentment.†
contentment = satisfaction
- This is Mississippi's peculiar way of making Negroes "happy and contented" with the democratic processes and of showing the world how well they care for the Negro in respecting his rights as an American citizen.†
contented = satisfied
- But the intimate contentment would not come.†
*contentment = satisfaction
- Scenes from books and movies came back—the laces, the shaded white-columned veranda with mint juleps served by an elegantly uniformed "darky," the honor, the magnolia fragrance, the cotton fields where "darkies, happy and contented," labored in the day and then gathered at the manse to serenade their beloved white folks with spirituals in the evening after supper...until the time when they could escape to freedom.†
contented = satisfied
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.