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单词 happify
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happifyv.

Brit. /ˈhapɪfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈhæpɪˌfaɪ/
Forms: 1600s–1700s happyfy, 1600s– happify.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: happy adj., -fy suffix.
Etymology: < happy adj. + -fy suffix.The formation was criticized by commentators in the 19th cent.; compare:1867 J. M. Bonnell Man. Art Prose Composition 33 (table) Ill-formed words..Happify—beatify; as if there were such Latin words as happy and happifacere.1893 H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities Speech Mississippi 35 Happify, used by some illiterate whites to mean to make happy.
Now chiefly North American colloquial.
transitive. To make happy; to gladden.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > make happy [verb (transitive)]
emblissc1430
happy1600
happify1612
enhappy1626
felicitate1628
felicify1683
1612 Sylvester Trag. Henry the Great 642 This Prince..One short Mis-hap for ever Happifies.
1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 88 It will surely conduce to prolong your days, besides happyfying them.
1767 E. Frothingham Key Door Connecticut Apol. 22 He is surrounded with the sweet Awe of God, divine Peace and Serenity of Soul, at the Foot of pure Justice satisfied, and in some Measure happified.
1786 I. Perkins Poems in H. R. Stiles Bundling (1869) 99 Sence it doth stand each one in hand, To happyfy his life.
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xviii. 79 If that don't happify your heart, then my name's not Sam Slick.
1875 M. B. Eddy Sci. & Health vi. 315 To happify existence by constant intercourse with those adapted to elevate it is the true motive for marriage.
1892 Spectator 9 Apr. 497/1 Finding infants whom she could wash and dress and happify among the alleys and courts of the East-End.
1935 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Dec. i. 6/6 Joyce goes back to happify her crippled husband.
1995 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 2 Nov. 7 Prime Minister Jean Chretien faces a difficult fight to persuade the rest of Canada to accept a package of proposals to happify Quebec.

Derivatives

ˈhappified adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [adjective] > made happy
felicitate1608
happified1798
1798 P. Thacher Sel. Disc. Pract. Subj. iv. 77 The happified saint will be free from the snares and temptations of the spiritual enemy.
1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 461 This happified convention.
1998 M. Nesmith Long, Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora 88 Love itself, being in love, loving, feeling loved and lovely, all work together to create the highest and most happified state of existence.
ˈhappifying adj.
ΚΠ
1653 J. Rogers Ohel or Beth-Shemesh ix. 509 A more admirable, usefull happifying excellent union, beyond comparison, then can be betweene a King and people.
1840 J. B. Dods 30 Short Serm. xi. 140 He who believes such a salvation to be happifying, will abandon sin, as the enemy of his peace, and seek righteousness, which alone can afford him tranquillity.
2005 W. A. Haviland et al. Cultural Anthropol. (2012) xi. 233/2 Global child exchange has become a big business—legal and illegal, moral and amoral, happifying and horrifying.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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