All 6 Uses of
content
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Sometimes, at night, she closed her eyes and lay awake, listening to his steady breathing, filled with a deep sense of contentment.†
p. 362.9 *contentment = satisfaction
- During the drive Caroline had been making plans, and now she pulled a drawer from her dresser and dumped its neat contents in a pile on the floor.†
p. 58.0
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Their lives were orderly, calm, content.†
p. 23.1
- She was supposed to be content.†
p. 76.9 *
- I'm perfectly content with this day.†
p. 114.3
- She hummed a little, content, as she put the first record carefully away and chose another.†
p. 390.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2)
(meaning too 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.