CONTENTEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contentedly mean? 

• CONTENTEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONTENTEDLY has 1 sense:

1. with equanimity

  Familiarity information: CONTENTEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTENTEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With equanimity

Context example:

'I bought it,' she said contentedly

Pertainym:

contented (satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are)

 Context examples 

I’ll wager every man Jack of them is over the side to-morrow, hunting for Wolf Larsen as contentedly as ever they hunted for Death Larsen.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But the point is, they sound the popular note, and they sound it so beautifully and morally and contentedly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You see, here in our country we live contentedly, and can talk and move around as we please.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

And in the meanwhile, the she-wolf, the cause of it all, sat down contentedly on her haunches and watched.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I persuaded myself that, unequal though we were in years, she would live tranquilly and contentedly with me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Mine is to stay at home safe with Father and Mother, and help take care of the family," said Beth contentedly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The wedding was celebrated, and after the king’s death, Dummling inherited his kingdom and lived for a long time contentedly with his wife.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

James and Isabella led the way; and so well satisfied was the latter with her lot, so contentedly was she endeavouring to ensure a pleasant walk to him who brought the double recommendation of being her brother's friend, and her friend's brother, so pure and uncoquettish were her feelings, that, though they overtook and passed the two offending young men in Milsom Street, she was so far from seeking to attract their notice, that she looked back at them only three times.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

At this period of my life, my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection: and yet, reader, to tell you all, in the midst of this calm, this useful existence—after a day passed in honourable exertion amongst my scholars, an evening spent in drawing or reading contentedly alone—I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy—dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester, always at some exciting crisis; and then the sense of being in his arms, hearing his voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, being loved by him—the hope of passing a lifetime at his side, would be renewed, with all its first force and fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)