Both Uses
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?
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- III So Pahom was well contented, and everything would have been right if the neighboring peasants would only not have trespassed on his cornfields and meadows.†
contented = satisfied
- He might have gone on living contentedly, but he grew tired of having to rent other people's land every year, and having to scramble for it.†
*contentedly = in a satisfied manner
Definitions:
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(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(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.