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- verb Present participle of
happify .
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Examples
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If you take "happifying" to mean "physically hot" instead of, say, "someone who makes you happy", isn't that your issue?
Comics ARE Good | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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You are both awesome people I would like to see happy, and I can see how you would be good and happifying for each other.
that post girliejones 2010
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June 19, 2009 at 9:45 am iz happifying me! yu oar alwayz so fast-like-a-quickly-swift-kitteh at nawt sekkunding that I am just streching my claws owt win yu oar alreddy awn yer elebenty-sekkund post!
for once, tom actually got - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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 If you threw a dart on the female populace of NYC you'd probably land on something less than happifying.
Comics ARE Good | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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It is the source of numberless human joys, and _any_ method of engaging in the act of mutual delight, that is, of _mutually happifying_, is legitimate and _altogether right_.
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To acquire, and to maintain these principles with unshaken firmness and fidelity in your transactions, both of a moral and religious nature, will secure to you the approbation of the wise and discerning part of mankind; and, what is infinitely more desirable and happifying, it will secure to you the enjoyment of an approving mind.
Last Advice of the Re. Charles Pettigrew to His Sons, 1797 1904
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"I feel in the inmost compartments of my animal spirits a most happifying sense of the success and futility of all my endeavors to sarve the people of Flat Creek deestrick, and the people of Tomkins township, in my weak way and manner."
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887
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“I feel in the inmost compartments of my animal spirits a most happifying sense of the success and futility of all my endeavors to sarve the people of Flat Creek deestrick, and the people of Tomkins township, in my weak way and manner.”
The Hoosier Schoolmaster Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 1871
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"I feel in the inmost compartments of my animal spirits a most happifying sense of the success and futility of all my endeavors to sarve the people of Flat Creek deestrick, and the people of Tomkins township, in my weak way and manner."
The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Edward Eggleston 1869
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The illusion, however, if it be one, I know is happifying to the mind; but this is no good reason, that I know of, why we should either embrace it ourselves, or propagate it in the world.
A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Hosea Ballou 1811
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