self-content

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Cricket is linked with the Golden Age of English power and self-content, the idyll that supposedly existed before the First World War.

From Newsweek

"I did see my way," said Brisket, with much self-content.

From The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Trollope, Anthony

I was really angry with O'Brien by that time, with his air of omniscience, superiority, and self-content, as if he were talking to a child or someone very credulous and weak-minded.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

As Dick climbed in beside her, she bent her head to Lestrange; if she had regretted her impulsive confidence, again the clear sanity and calm of the gray eyes she encountered established self-content.

From The Flying Mercury by Frederick, Edmund

It may, however, be pointed out that in so far as an object is cognized by the mind, it becomes in a sense part of the complex self-content.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various