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Definition of Contenting
1. content [v] - See also: content
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contenting
Literary usage of Contenting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"Instead of contenting himself with a moderate contribution, and a military title,
which equalled him only to the generals of Theodosius, Attila would ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1844)
"... I determined lo take a little time for further reflection and examination ;
contenting myself with the use of such means as would give some respite from ..."
3. The Lombard Communes: A History of the Republics of North Italy by William Francis Thomas Butler (1906)
"He seems to have held no municipal office during these years, contenting himself
with the substance of power, directing the foreign policy of Ferrara, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1842)
"... contenting ourselves with a pleasant sketch of those of the gentler sex who (in
contradistinction to the heartless votaries of fashion) ' love a rainy ..."
5. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1914)
"For had he wished to beget more sons as good, he should have planned at the outset
to marry a woman of family, instead of contenting himself, as long as he ..."
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