Meaning of good-humour | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of good humour.

alt-of, archaic, uncountable

Examples

“Sotherton was a word to catch⟳ Mrs. Norris, and being just then in the happy leisure which followed securing the odd trick⟳ by Sir Thomas’s capital play⟳ and her own⟳, against Dr. and Mrs. Grant’s great hands, she called out in high good-humour, “Sotherton! “Yes, that is a place⟳ indeed, and we had a charming day there.[…]””

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”

“We were almost always under fire from the enemy; but with the utmost cheerfulness, and even, I may say⟳, good-humour, the whole of the infantry did all in their power to lighten the work⟳ of the overtasked artillerymen: comrades we were, all striving for the accomplishment of one purpose—that of bringing swift and sure destruction on the rebels who had for so long a period successfully resisted our arms.”

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