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ˈspriteliness Now rare.
[f. spritely a.]
= sprightliness.
1666H. Stubbe Mirac. Conformist 2 A vivacitie and spritelinesse that is nothing common. 1710F. Fuller Pharmacop. 125 It..puts new spriteliness into the clog'd Spirits. 1779Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. 1787 IV. 45 A Preface, written with great spriteliness and elegance. 1805Brathwait's Barnabees Jrnl. Introd. (1818) 45 A very pleasing effusion of spriteliness. 1909Contemp. Rev. Lit. Suppl. Nov. 6 Marred by the elephantine spriteliness of the style. |