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Definition of Sprightfulness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprightfulness
Literary usage of Sprightfulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"... who has become a Christian not by mortification, but by the development of
his whole being:— " Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth, ..."
2. Social England: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws edited by Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann (1899)
"But the earnest letters of the Prince, a boy of fifteen, counted for little with
Goring, whose " perpetual sprightfulness and pleasantness of humour" were ..."
3. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor (1857)
"*It is a mighty change that is made by the death of every person, and it is
visible to us who are alive. Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth, ..."
4. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor (1850)
"Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth and the fair cheeks and the full eyes
of childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of ..."
5. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor (1876)
"Beckon but from the sprightfulness of youth and the fair cheeks and the full eyes
of childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of ..."
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