Definition of Contenting

1. Verb. (present participle of content) ¹

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Definition of Contenting

1. content [v] - See also: content

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contenting

content repository
content validity
content word
content words
content wrangling
content wranglings
contentation
contentations
contented
contentedly
contentedness
contentednesses
contentest
contenteth
contentful
contenting (current term)
contention
contention system
contention systems
contentions
contentious
contentiously
contentiousness
contentless
contently
contentment
contentments
contents
conterminable
conterminal

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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