contenting

comparative more contenting · superlative most contenting

1. Producing contentment; pleasing or satisfying.

   It was very contenting and relaxing to the senses .

   2000, James R. Zeffield, The Competitors, page 23

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   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

   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

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of content