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Definition of Contentments
1. contentment [n] - See also: contentment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contentments
Literary usage of Contentments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"Country contentments. By Gervase Markham. London, 1633- 5. Barker's Delight, or
The Whole Art of Angling. London, 1657. 6. Young Sportsman's Instructor. ..."
2. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"MIXED contentments. WHAT a fool were I, if I should think to find that, which
Solomon ... No, alas, all our earthly contentments are like a Jewish Passover, ..."
3. The English Bowman: Or, Tracts on Archery; to which is Added the Second Part by Thomas Roberts, William Wood (1801)
"Country contentments. (London, 1615.)- Chap. 8. p. 107. School of Recreation, by
RH 1684. ... contentments ..."
4. The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks by Thomas Brooks, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1866)
"Abraham will obey and follow God, though he forsakes all the benefits and
contentments of his native country, and of his father's house, not knowing where ..."
5. The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks by Thomas Brooks, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1866)
"Oh, but, sir! the Lord hath smitten me in my nearest and dearest comforts and
contentments, and how then can I hold my peace ? God hath taken away a husband ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"Shall we believe ourselves before our betters, that bodily pleasures, great
preferment, or other contentments, which almost all account worthy of their ..."
7. Florence, the New Capital of Italy by Charles Richard Weld (1867)
"... Costumes—A Bacchante—Receptions of the British Minister—'Soft contentments' —Beauty
of the Florentines—Loud Voices—Theatres—Dinner Parties—Amusements of ..."
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