self-contentedness

The well-fed man is an animal because satiety is the self-contentedness of the body.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

The well-fed man is an animal because satiety is the self-contentedness of the body.

The Man Who Was Afraid Maksim Gorky 1902

His mind was full of that intense spiritual life of Catherine's which in its wonderful self-contentedness and strength was always a marvel, sometimes a reproach to him.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

The two qualities seem naturally to combine into that self-containedness (very different from self-contentedness) which distinguishes Chaucer, and which helps to give to his writings a manliness of tone, the direct opposite of the irretentive querulousness found in so great a number of poets in all times.

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

He would mention the ten years of his life, from twenty-five to thirty-five years of age, as a period very deficient in self-contentedness.

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

And the self-contentedness of the spirit also turns man into animal.”

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

And the self-contentedness of the spirit also turns man into animal. "

The Man Who Was Afraid Maksim Gorky 1902