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English
Pronunciation
Verb
contented
- simple past 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, 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," breathed, "since I have lived to see the present day."
2024, hanaz._.hynjineie, Instagram:Bitch aren't you contented into using a rose toy 24/7 non stop and letting random people suck ung ur Vagina my gosh you even told them your Vagina had braces
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Etymology
From Middle English contenten.
Pronunciation
Adjective
contented
- satisfied
1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:Zoo wough aul returnth hime, contented an gaay,- So we all returned home, contented and gay,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96