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Webster 1913 Edition
Contented
Con-tent′ed
,Adj.
Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing.
– Con-tent′ed-ly
, adv.
Con-tent′ed-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Contented
CONTENTED
,pp.
Definition 2024
contented
contented
English
Verb
contented
- simple past tense and past participle of content
Adjective
contented (comparative more contented, superlative most contented)
- Satisfied.
- c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, Act III (now Act IV, scene i), page 222:
- I pray you huſband be not ſo diſquiet. / The meate was well, if you were ſo contented.
- 1795 James Boswell, as quoted in, 2010, Doug Stewart, the Boy Who Would be Shakespeare, excerpted as "To Be... or Not", Smithsonian, ISSN 0037-7333, volume 4, number 3, June 2010, page 72:
- "I shall now die contented," [Boswell] breathed, "since I have lived to see the present day."
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Translations
satisfied — see satisfied