contenting

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English

Adjective

contenting (comparative more contenting, superlative most contenting)

  1. Producing contentment; pleasing or satisfying.
    • 1815, Stephen Charnock, Edward Parsons, The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock, page 223:
      To preserve the rights of justice, and to give a contenting answer to the cry of mercy, to wipe off, as I may say, the tears of one, and smooth the frowns of the other, God lays our iniquity upon Christ, Isa . 53. 6.
    • 1830, Richard Baxter, William Orme, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter, page vi:
      you can daily retire into yourself, and there peruse a richer treasure than bodily eyes on earth can see; and there be taken up with a far more contenting satisfactory employment , and a more fruitful and pleasant converse and recreation, than any you, creature in court or country can afford;
    • 2000, James R. Zeffield, The Competitors, page 23:
      It was very contenting and relaxing to the senses .
    • 1923, Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf:
      Yet it comes over me that to sit on the grass at the Horse Show tomorrow with L. will be very contenting.

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Verb

contenting

  1. present participle and gerund of content

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