contentedness
/kuhn-ten-tid/US // kənˈtɛn tɪd //UK // (kənˈtɛntɪd) //
知足常乐,知足者常乐,知足,满意
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adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : satisfied; content.
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Examples
He was averse to costly pleasures, and regarded contentedness with a little to be a great good.
Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches; trust is the best of relatives, Nirvana the highest happiness.
Contentedness in all accidents brings great peace of spirit, and is the great and only instrument of temporal felicity.
In a contentedness with that degree and state which God hath assigned us.
She did not know she was humble-minded and of an angelic contentedness of spirit.
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