Meaning of chearfulness | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“The Sun to the Terms of Mercury. It inclineth the native to be Mercurial, given to ſtudy Arts and Sciences, and to delight in reading, and to follow⟳ his Calling with chearfulneſs.”

““Come⟳, come⟳,” ſaid Madame D’Alberg, forcing an appearance of chearfulneſs which ſhe was far from feeling; […]”

“Nature has made ſorrow and grief the companions of age, and beſtowed chearfulneſs on youth, to prepare⟳ it for the ſufferings of declining years. I never knew chearfulneſs.—My enjoyments have⟳ been the hard fare of a common ſoldier, and the ſeverity of the ſerjeant into the bargain.”

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