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contenting

contenting adjective: producing contentment; pleasing or satisfying. Also the present participle and gerund of content.

Adjective

contenting (comparative more contenting, superlative most contenting)

  1. Producing contentment; pleasing or satisfying.
    • To preserve the rights of justice, and to give a contenting answer to the cry of mercy, to wipe off, as I may say, the tears of one, and smooth the frowns of the other, God lays our iniquity upon Christ, Isa . 53. 6.1815, Stephen Charnock, Edward Parsons, The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock, page 223
    • you can daily retire into yourself, and there peruse a richer treasure than bodily eyes on earth can see; and there be taken up with a far more contenting satisfactory employment , and a more fruitful and pleasant converse and recreation, than any you, creature in court or country can afford;1830, Richard Baxter, William Orme, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter, page vi

Also used as

contenting is also the present participle and gerund of content.

Examples of contenting in a sentence

  • It was very contenting and relaxing to the senses .2000, James R. Zeffield, The Competitors, page 23:
  • Yet it comes over me that to sit on the grass at the Horse Show tomorrow with L. will be very contenting.1923, Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf:

Forms of contenting

comparativemore contenting
superlativemost contenting

Words formed from contenting

Questions about contenting

What does contenting mean?
Contenting means producing contentment; pleasing or satisfying.
How do you use contenting in a sentence?
It was very contenting and relaxing to the senses .
What part of speech is contenting?
Contenting is an adjective.

Words near contenting in the dictionary

  1. contentest
  2. contenteth
  3. contentful
  4. contentfully
  5. contentfulness
  6. contenting
  7. contention
  8. contention system
  9. contention systems
  10. contentional
  11. contentions

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