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  • adjective Archaic spelling of cheerful.

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Examples

  • Your Mother is midling, and Mary is chearful and willing.

    Letter 242 2009

  • Isaac Bird and wife and child have just had tea with us, they are all well and chearful. —

    Letter 104 2009

  • We specialize...perhaps even excellently, in chearful frugality.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Christine Robinson 2009

  • I think, especially in this generalist business of ministry, you have to be downright chearful about all the things you don't do very well, lest you sink under the weight of depression.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Christine Robinson 2009

  • I think, especially in this generalist business of ministry, you have to be downright chearful about all the things you don't do very well, lest you sink under the weight of depression.

    Bumbling Ministry Christine Robinson 2009

  • We specialize...perhaps even excellently, in chearful frugality.

    Bumbling Ministry Christine Robinson 2009

  • Adieu, then, my dear sister, I hope soon to write more chearful tidings.

    Camilla 2008

  • Macdersey was a man of honour, and possessed better claims to her than he had either language or skill to explain: but the good Lord O'Lerney, who, to benevolence the most chearful, and keenness the least severe, joined judgment and generosity, acted as the guardian of his kinsman, and placed the young couple in competence and comfort.

    Camilla 2008

  • Her aunt seized the agitating moment of self-upbraiding and worldly disgust, to impress upon her fears the lessons of her opening life: and thus, repulsed from passion, and sickened of dissipation, though too illiberally instructed for chearful and rational piety, she was happily snatched from utter ruin by protecting, though eccentric enthusiasm.

    Camilla 2008

  • And this, till its end was answered, they would all steadily continue, and then, with chearful self-approvance, resume their wonted comforts.

    Camilla 2008

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