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- adjective Archaic form of
cheerful .
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Examples
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Nat is cheerfull, but has his old complaint in his eyes to a great degree.
Letter 281 2009
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On the day when I arrived [word cut off] had dismissed his Lions, and being half holiday we had a walk, and much conversation; he seemd quite cheerfull, and lookd well, and much more determined from the opposition he had met with.
Letter 324 2009
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As to the number of his motions (2 and somtimes 3 a day) I should not interfere with them so long as his appetite is not affected and he appears cheerfull.
Letter 165 2009
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I can not be really cheerfull until these greedy Republicans and their idiot policies have been swept out of Washington.
Road to November: Halfway There - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Cameron is succeeding in countering this long term indemic BBCs bias simply by BEING SMART, staying cheerfull and not saying anything that the BBC would be very glad to hang him with.
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I think that economic depression at some point inevitably leads to emotional and social depression; it is kind of hard to be cheerfull and optimistic when you cant find work to support yourself.
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I KNOW YOU ARE! depressed, but hey at lest you get to sea som engrish, so be depressed because cheerfull. dave | 11: 41 am | Vote: 0 0
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Thorello at his parting from her; she fixed her eyes often on it, and as often on him, whom she thought to be a stranger, the cheerfull bloud mounting up into her cheeks, and returning againe with remembrance to her heart, that (howsoever thus disguised) he only was her husband.
The Decameron 2004
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My faire and dearly affected Grizelda, shee whom thou supposest for my new elected Spouse, with a glad and cheerfull hart, imbrace for thine owne daughter, and this also her Brother, beeing both of them thy children and mine, in common opinion of the vulgar multitude, imagined to be (by my command) long since slaine.
The Decameron 2004
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Charles, who had just recoverd from the Measles: he reachd here for the Night, and tho he complaind of having felt rather unwell for a few days, he spent as pleasent and cheerfull an evening as I had known him for many Years.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 20 September 1783 1993
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