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sprightliness|ˈspraɪtlɪnɪs|
[f. next + -ness.]
The character or state of being sprightly; liveliness, vivacity, animation.
1650T. B[ayley] Worcester's Apoph. 105 With some sprightlinesse he spake aloud. 1684Burnet More's Utopia 130 They think it a madness for a Man..to corrupt the sprightliness of his Body by Sloth. 1712Addison Spect. No. 446 ⁋8 The fine Woman is generally a Composition of Sprightliness and Falshood. 1781Cowper Conversat. 635 Youth has a sprightliness and fire to boast, That in the valley of decline are lost. 1832Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. 5, I was struck with the cries of the birds we noticed: there was no sprightliness in them, nor melody. 1894J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. Recoll. II. 237 A lady..delightful by force of her colloquial sprightliness. |