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merriness Now rare.|ˈmɛrɪnɪs|
[f. merry a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being merry (in various senses of the adj.).
a1300Cursor M. 20510 Sittes stell now mar and lesse, And hers now þis mirines. c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. Pr. ii. 52 (Camb. MS.) Wyf and chyldren þat men desyren for cause of delit and of merynesse. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxiii. 31 Tak thow example and spend with mirriness. 1567Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 76 The Angellis sang with merynes. 1599Jas. I βασιλ. Δωρον (1603) 115 Tempering it with grauitie, and quicknesse, or merrinesse, according to the subject, and occasion of the time. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 2 We vomited out a like eccho of thunder, plowing up the liquid seas in merrinesse. 1848Tait's Mag. XV. 114 Joy and merriness are not for me. 1886Maneh. Exam. 16 Nov. 5/5 The merriness which is supposed to be characteristic of the music of a peal of bells. |