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high spirits

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highspirits pl (plural only)

  1. Joyouselation,joyfulness,joyousness.
    Synonyms:jolliness,jollity;see alsoThesaurus:happiness
    Antonyms:low spirits;see alsoThesaurus:sadness
    • 1909,Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, inThe Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.:Dodd, Mead and Company, published1919,→OCLC,page 9:
      They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour andhigh spirits.
    • 2000, Mary S. Lovell,A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton, W. W. Norton & Company,→ISBN, page415:
      Apart from yachting and the cross-Channel steamer it was her first experience of being at sea and she was inhigh spirits.

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joyfulness

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