self-contentedadj.

1631 G. Downame Covenant of Grace 6 That God, being of infinite Majestie and glory, and enjoying all selfe-contented happines, would give his onely begotten Sonne to die for his enemies.

1764 C. Collignon Enq. into Struct. of Human Body 11 The unthinking, self-contented peasant, feeds on the coarsest fare, braves the unfriendly dews, and dares almost the whole artillery of heaven, perhaps without an ail.

1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 29 Men, women, children, slunk away, Whispering with self-contented pride.

1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 16 One of those self-contented fussy men.

1912 J. H. McCarthy Health unto his Majesty xvii. 179 It was, therefore, in a very self-contented, not to say self-complacent, mood that Colonel Lane trudged briskly along the quays.

1976 Mother Jones June 62/2 He simultaneously admires their success, his ability to sponge off them and their fury that he is such a self-contented wastrel.

2012 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Oct. Their intention isn't to make the audience feel self-contented or comfortable.

1840 E. B. Barrett Lay of Rose in Monthly Chron. July 17 Ye to yourselves suffice, Without its flatteries; Self-contentedly approve you Unto Him who sits above you.

1917 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 336/2 He was dreaming idly, self-contentedly, beyond the reach of subtlety or flatteries.

2017 S. Taberner Transnationalism & German-lang. Lit. iv. 128 The affluent, self-contentedly liberal West.

1642 J. Bewick Antidote against Lay-preaching iv. 17 Christianity as it is a Profession of true Autarchy, or self-contentednesse with ones own station or condition.

1830 London Lit. Gaz. 2 Jan. 3/1 There was something in the air of the whole apartment that was calculated to impress the beholder with an instantaneous conviction of the wealth, the self-contentedness, and the piety of the owner.

1941 Calif. Law Rev. 29 330 Self-contentedness may rest on self-complacency as well as on real goodness.

2004 News Herald (Panama City, Florida) 10 Feb. b2/6 His father possessed a self-contentedness that persisted even after a bad motorcycle accident years ago.