mirthfulness
IPA: mˈɝθfʌɫnʌs
noun
- The property of being mirthful; happiness
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Examples of "mirthfulness" in Sentences
- He had lost the mirthfulness and loquacity of the previous day, and we rode on for a full hour in silence.
- Levin felt envious of this health and mirthfulness; he longed to take part in the expression of this joy of life.
- But it was too late; the consulting detective had blinked away; his mirthfulness, manifesting itself at the most inopportune times,
- It is true that on such occasions he was not conspicuous for any special mirthfulness; but his good-humour had always been somewhat subdued in character.
- He spurned everything mean and ungenerous, -- was genial in disposition, indeed brimming with mirthfulness, and, in every situation, attracted to himself numerous friends.
- Their mirthfulness and kindliness are most winning; their horses, food, clothes, and time are all bestowed on one so freely, and one lives amongst them with a most restful sense of absolute security.
- Indeed, the innocent unconsciousness of anything derogatory to her name or character which belonged to Adèle, and her consequent cheery mirthfulness, were sources of infinite annoyance to Miss Eliza.
- After making known to him the object of my visit, the desire of being numbered among the _personnel_ of his enterprise, the conversation quickly took that turn of mirthfulness that was at the bottom of Favre's character.
- The Hawaiians are a handsome people, scornful and sarcastic-looking even with their mirthfulness; and those who know them say that they are always quizzing and mimicking the haoles, and that they give everyone a nickname, founded on some personal peculiarity.
- Herr Klüber, for his part, did everything he supposed conducive to the mirthfulness of the company; he begged them to sit down in the shade of a spreading oak-tree, and taking out of a side pocket a small booklet entitled, ‘Knallerbsen; oder du sollst und wirst lachen!’
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