contentedness

Example Sentences

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Contentedness does increase steadily in line with incomes and even accelerates as pay rises beyond $100,000 a year — as long as the person enjoys a certain baseline level of happiness to begin with.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2023

Quiet and Contentedness; which whoso enjoys, reapeth benefit of his labours.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley

Contentedness has its virtues, but it may degenerate into inertia and the death of all desire for better life.

From The Farmer and His Community by Sanderson, Dwight

That secret Rest and Contentedness of Mind, which gives him a Perfect Enjoyment of his present Condition?

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Contentedness in all accidents brings great peace of spirit, and is the great and only instrument of temporal felicity.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education