contents

[Con*tents]

Contents are the chapters, subjects, or articles within a written work. You might need to scroll through a list of the entire contents of your computer's hard drive if you're searching for a missing document.

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See Content, n.

Noun
a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start


pl.
of Content

n. pl.
See Content, n.


Contents

Con*tents (? ∨ ?; 277), n. pl. See Content, n.

See Content, n.

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Usage Examples

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

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