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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing.

Greek

842. autarkes -- self-sufficient, sufficient
... Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: autarkes Phonetic Spelling:
(ow-tar'-kace) Short Definition: self-sufficient, contented, satisfied Definition: ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5315. nephesh -- a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire ...
... a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) -- any, appetite,
beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish ...
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Library

Be Thou Contented.
... Songs of the Cross and Consolation. BE THOU CONTENTED. Be thou contented! aye
relying On thy ... setteth never. Be thou contented! He lightens ...
/.../gerhardt/paul gerhardts spiritual songs/be thou contented.htm

Rest of the Soul.
... It is the will of God that you be always happy. If you are not contented with such
things as you have, you would not be contented had you ever so much. ...
/.../orr/food for the lambs or helps for young christians/rest of the soul.htm

Abandonment to God --Its Fruit and Its Irrevocability --In what it ...
... This conviction will render us contented with everything, and will make us
see the commonest events in God, and not in the creature. ...
/.../chapter v abandonment to godits.htm

Of the Three Perturbations, which the Stoics Admitted in the Soul ...
... According to them, therefore, none but the wise man wills, is contented, uses caution;
and that the fool can do no more than desire, rejoice, fear, be sad. ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 8 of the three perturbations.htm

The Heath in the Desert and the Tree by the River
... There is the explanation of the fact that men are contented with the partial and
evanescent blessedness that may be drawn from human loves and companionship ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the heath in the desert.htm

Cholera, 1866
... But there is not a sufficient supply; because too many of the labouring classes
in towns, though they are earning very high wages, are contented to live in a ...
/.../kingsley/the water of life and other sermons/sermon xvii cholera 1866.htm

What the Flowers Say.
... Next, the flowers say to us, "be contented." They are quite satisfied to grow, and
smell sweet, and look pretty, in the place where God puts them. ...
/.../the life of duty a years plain sermons v 2/sermon lxi what the flowers.htm

Sermon for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
... I was before." And thus they turn away themselves and others from the truth, just
as if it in no wise concerned them, and sit down quite contented with their ...
/.../xii sermon for the fourth.htm

Of the Recollection of God's Manifold Benefits
... loveth Thee and knoweth Thy benefits, as Thy will in him, and the good pleasure
of Thine eternal Providence, wherewith he ought to be so contented and comforted ...
/.../kempis/imitation of christ/chapter xxii of the recollection.htm

Of the Union of the Blessed Spirits with God, in the vision of the ...
... substance itself, taken into our soul by the mouth of our understanding, and what
surpasses all sweetness is, that as mothers are not contented with feeding ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xi of the union.htm

Thesaurus

Contented (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Contented (1 Occurrence). Daniel 4:4 I, Nebuchadnezzar,
was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace. (See NIV). ...
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Content (30 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which
one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest. ...
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Quiet (167 Occurrences)
... quiet conscience. 4. (a.) Not giving offense; not exciting disorder or trouble;
not turbulent; gentle; mild; meek; contented. 5. (a ...
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Fain (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
2. (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained. 3. (adv.) With joy; gladly. ...
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Things (10975 Occurrences)
... high," "lofty," "elevated" (Romans 12:16, "Mind not high things, but condescend
to men of low estate," the King James Version margin "be contented with mean ...
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Paid (86 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp., pp, & a.) Receiving pay; compensated; hired;
as, a paid attorney. 2. (imp., pp, & a.) Satisfied; contented. 3. (imp. ...
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Contentment (4 Occurrences)
... hereafter (Romans 5:2). Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) The state of
being contented or satisfied; content. 2. (n.) The act or ...
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Comfortable (2 Occurrences)
... 4. (a.) In a condition of comfort; having comforts; not suffering or anxious;
hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life. ...
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Contenting (1 Occurrence)

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Complacent (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Self-satisfied; contented; as, a complacent temper;
a complacent smile. Multi-Version Concordance Complacent (5 Occurrences). ...
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Bible Concordance

Contented (1 Occurrence)

Daniel 4:4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Contented

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