Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Cheerfulness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Cheerfulness.

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  • noun obsolete cheerfulness

Etymologies

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cheerish +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, -- which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

    Pearls of Thought Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

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