a. Highly pleased, gratified or satisfied.
c. 1440. [see CONTENT a. 2].
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xxvi. 557. Whan rowlande sawe that they were armed, he was not well contente wyth it.
1556. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 298. Off the quhilk sowme forsaid I grant me weill content, satisfiit, and pait.
1645. Waller, Battle Summer Isl., iii. 32. Now would the men with half their hoped pray Bee well content.
1784. Cowper, Task, III. 805. He that finds One drop of heav’n’s sweet mercy in his cup, Can dig, beg, rot and perish, well content, So he may wrap himself in honest rags At his last gasp.
1786. [see CONTENT a. 2].
1864. Tennyson, En. Arden, 373. So Philip rested with her well-content.
