All 4 Uses of
content
in
Running in the Family
- Years earlier, Archer and Doreen Jayawardene had mentioned to him that Rock Hill was a "see devi" place, meaning a home of contentment and peace.†
p. 199.9 *contentment = satisfaction
- Maratina filled a bucket with water and flung the contents towards our cowering screaming bodies.†
p. 138.3
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- If I wanted permission to do something such as go for a dance I would ask him then, for at that moment he was most content with things.†
p. 195.4 *
- He was content though.†
p. 197.9
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.