Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make happy.
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- verb To make
happy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, there will be no little story to happify you this week, as last week there were 10 winners, the most in Mitchieville history.
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The little words of love and the little deeds of kindness go often without recompense so far as we can see, except that they happify the world, but that in itself is no small return.
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In defining the real purpose of marriage Mrs. Eddy says nothing about children; "to happify existence by constant intercourse with those adapted to elevate it, is the true purpose of marriage."
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The colonial pedants denounced to advocate as bitterly as they ever denounced to compromit or to happify, and all the English authorities gave them aid, but it forced itself into the American language despite them, and today it is even accepted as English and has got into the Concise Oxford Dictionary.
Chapter 1. Introductory. 5. The General Character of American English
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Thorntons last example of the use of to compromit is dated 1842; of to happify, 1857, and of to ambition, 1861.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material
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Others were made by hitching suffixes to nouns, or by groping for roots, e. g., to deputize, to locate, to legislate, to infract, to compromit and to happify.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material
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So did to compromit (i. e., to compromise), to homologize and to happify.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material
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Now, Ladies, all we would do is to do all in our power, both individually and collectively, to harmonize and happify our Social system.
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Now, Ladies, all we would do is to do all in our power, both individually and collectively, to harmonize and happify our Social system.
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"It wuz somethin 'I couldn't help approvin' of, and it wuz somethin 'that would happify me, and be a solid comfort to her, and a great gain and honor."
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