contented
Etymology
verb
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simple past and past participle of content
adj
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Satisfied. I pray you huſband be not ſo diſquiet. / The meate was well, if you were ſo contented. 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, act III (now act IV, scene i), page 222"I shall now die contented," [Boswell] breathed, "since I have lived to see the present day." 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
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