cheerfulness

CEFRB2

/ˈt͡ʃɪɹfəlnəs/

noun

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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

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Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giueth, let him doe it with simplicitie: hee that ruleth, with diligence: hee that sheweth mercy, with cheerefulnesse.
The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns - a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms - days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average.

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Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giueth, let him doe it with simplicitie: hee that ruleth, with diligence: hee that sheweth mercy, with cheerefulnesse.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:8
The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns - a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms - days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 16

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From Middle English cherefulnes; equivalent to cheerful + -ness.